Category: Health

This past week I had the privilege of helping to host the Association of Professional Futurists in an annual gathering, as part of the planning committee. The Association was celebrating its 15th Anniversary, and it was an opportunity for these professional futurists to look...

Technology Review always does excellent lists of new and breakthrough technologies that seem fairly close to commercial viability. Here is their new list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2016…I’ve grouped them into domains of a sort… Biotech and Biology Immune Engineering – Immunotherapy is...

Few fields offer so much promise to leverage new knowledge and technology than does medicine and health care. Progress can still be slow and frustrating, but there are tremendous breakthroughs occurring in our understanding of genetics and of the brain. Lundbeck, a Copenhagen-based pharma...

I come across lists of emerging technologies all the time. This one, from the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies is particularly good. This institute was founded in 2004 by philosopher Nick Bostrom and bioethicist James J. Hughes. The list of 7 technologies that...

Last week I had the privilege of presenting the keynote speech on the future and aging to the opening general session of the annual N4A Conference, which is the annual meeting of the National Area Agencies on Aging. It was the 40th anniversary of...