ArchivesTag : technology

World on FiRe – Notes & Impressions from FiRe 2009

Last week included four eventful days at the annual Future In Review conference put on by the Strategic News Service. This year, the last at the San Diego Del Coronado was the best of the five I have attended, of the eight that have been held. (full disclosure – I am on [...]

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Future of Technology – Twitter and a webcast archive

Yesterday I enjoyed speaking to the Woods Creek Consulting Technology Executive roundtable group. My assignment as a futurist speaker was to share news of the leading edge of technology development. We also did a live webcast, which was announced here, a link that also takes you to the webcast archive and to the [...]

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Live Webcast: Future Trends in Technology

At 4:00 PM Pacific time (U.S.) I will be presenting a program on interesting future technology for a Technology Executive Roundtable, coordinated by Nancy Truitt Pierce and her company, Woods Creek Consulting,
You can tune into the Webcast in the viewer here, or by linking to our “futurist” channel at the webcast host, [...]

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20 Inventions for the Next 10 Years

An article for which I was interviewed, “twenty inventions for the next 10 years,” originally appearing in Business Week as part of the Innovations of the Future piece by Damian Joseph, has been picked up by both Yahoo Finance, and interestingly, translated and picked up in Vietnam, in Saigon Online. Check them out in [...]

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Innovate our way out of recession

This is a google alert for an amazing piece in Business Week, based on interviews with me, Glen Hiemstra, and a few other innovators and thinkers, by a terrific writer, Damian Joseph.
Damian offers an overview of the need for and power of innovation, followed by a list of 20 innovations for the next 10 years. [...]

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Creativity and Innovation

Creative thinking is future thinking. To think creatively is to move imaginatively into the future. To create, to innovate, is to bring the future concretely into the present. Futurists use specific skills and methodologies when thinking of the future. The same is true with creative thinkers. To learn creative thinking skills is to leverage [...]

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Media futurist and Outlook 2009

I’ll be writing my Outlook 2009, to accompany the video already up. But getting a head start, Swiss-based media futurist Gerd Leonhard just linked to it as his blog, mediafuturist.
You can get a look at Outlook 2009 here, in our upgraded video pages.
Bottom line: 2009 may be just a bit better than what we [...]

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Videos by Futurist.com

The Future.
It is mysterious, looming, full of possibility.
To understand the future, and to create it, we ask three questions: What is probable? What is possible? What is preferred?
Explore the future in these Video features and interviews produced by Futurist.com on a range of future topics.

Video Features and Interviews
Introduction to Futurist.com – The Company

What [...]

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Futurist Speaker

The Future.
If you listen carefully, you can learn what the future is telling you.
Glen Hiemstra, futurist speaker, Founder of Futurist.com, author, blogger, has been listening the future professionally for two decades. Glen’s popular keynote speeches examine the important events, trends and developments that are shaping the future, with a particular emphasis on how we can [...]

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Outlook 2008

Here is my outlook for 2008, recorded December 21, 2007.

Overview – 2008 will be a year that feels like a whip-saw. Promising innovations. Economic turmoil. Large events
The Economy 2008 – Paradoxes
2008 will be one of paradox, innovation balanced by turmoil. Because of the tremendous interconnectivity of researchers, the [...]

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