Category: Science & Tech

Toyota goes back to the future today as they introduce their Fuel Cell Electric car, the Mirai. Cool vision, great video intro. Will Toyota win with electric fuel cells, or will Elon Musk win with battery electric. We will see in next few years....

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...

Everything possible today was at one time impossible. Everything impossible today may at some time in the future be possible. Dr. Ed Lindaman was the program director for planning Apollo, then became a college president and direct mentor to me in becoming a futurist....

Futurist colleague Gerd Leonhard has produced a short video film, in which he suggests that humanity will see more change in the next 20 years than in the last 300 years. In this nicely produced video Gerd gets to the major themes he is...

I came across this very nice exploration of numerous instances in the past and also very recently, when big ideas were proposed that people thought could not and would not happen, only to be proved wrong when later it became inevitable and was done....