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  • — Will the Internet transform storytelling?

       (Friday, 26 October 2007 20:51)

    Next month will see the Myspace TV debut of “Quarterlife,” a Web series that follows the fictional adventures of twenty-something creatives searching for love, gainful employment and the meaning of life.


  • — What evolutionary psychology says about social networking

       (Monday, 10 September 2007 10:55)

    It’s dangerous to rely on the enthusiasms of the blogosphere to determine the longevity of any new Web phenomenon.  But social networking may be in a class by itself — for reasons that go back long even before human memory. 

  • — At this radio network, the audience is the star

       (Wednesday, 25 July 2007 14:37)

    Is old-style journalism going the way of the dinosaur? Or can audience participation infuse new life into the newsroom?St. Paul, Minnesota's best-known contribution to modern media may be Prairie Home Companion — but its Minnesota Public Radio group is now working on a project with even bigger potential.  And this time the star isn’t Garrison Keilor, but the audience itself.


  • — Is the Internet dumbing us down?

       (Monday, 18 June 2007 21:37)

    June 5: Andrew Keen was one of the earliest executives in the dot-com era. In his new book, he says the Internet is dumbing down culture and undermining creativity. Andrew Keen wants to start an argument. And his new book “The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture” shows that he knows how to do it.


  • — Who will fix my wired (and wireless) home?

       (Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:22)

    When I was growing up, my mother urged me to become a telephone repairman—that way, she said, I’d always have a job. I think she was  onto something, but it’s more than just telephones — it’s all the gadgets that hang onto our increasingly complex home networks.

  • — Will road warriors choose electrons over airplanes?

       (Monday, 16 April 2007 09:34)

    It turns out that videoconferencing reaches a new threshold of reality when the people you’re seeing are nearly life-sized, moving naturally (without that Max Headroom lag-time) and speaking with sound as clear as a CD.


  • — Who will be the TV Guide of the Internet?

       (Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:33)

    TV Guide hopes their version of video search to be released in April will make them the TV Guide of the Internet. Their version of video search will have several clear distinctions from existing competitors. How do you find what you want in the midst of this utterly disorganized video bonanza?  Clearly, the entrepreneur who comes up with the video equivalent of Google would be in a very powerful position.


  • — Why is U.S. always last for new phones?

       (Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:53)

    Phones showing video clips on view on the second day of the 3GSM congress in Barcelona. Leading companies in telecommunications, the Internet and entertainment gathered in Barcelona for one of the world's biggest trade shows for the mobile phone industry.For U.S. gadget lovers, this week has been pretty much torment.  We’ve been watching the enormous 3GSM tradeshow in Barcelona where the latest and greatest mobile phone gadgetry is paraded before the international press.


  • — Weighing the risks of biotechnology

       (Wednesday, 17 January 2007 01:01)

    Rows of drying soybean are seen in a farmer's field in Maryland Line, Md., Thursday, No. 9, 2006. The nation's soybean crop is on track for its best year ever, and the corn crop is expected to be the second-best, the Agriculture Department said Thursday. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner)Can we continue to advance technology without needlessly subjecting society to more Chernobyl melt-downs? The query is made more urgent by the fact that, given the new powers of biotechnology, the next miscalculation may prove to be damaging in ways we can’t presently...

  • — What will make the laptop obsolete?

       (Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:02)

    A decade or two from now, will there be a laptop replacement? Will an even smaller, more mobile device — perhaps something the size of today’s smartphone — replace the laptop in the lives of consumers?


  • — Whither the iPod?

       (Wednesday, 08 November 2006 17:29)

    Apple's ubiquitous iPod, including the latest video version, shown here, is a digital media phenomenon. But issues like digital rights management could stem that tide. It’s been quite an autumn for the ubiquitous music player: the fifth anniversary celebration, the ultra-small gigabyte Shuffle and finally the ultimate iPod accessory: “The Perfect Thing,” Steven Levy’s engaging new book that chronicles all-things iPod.  But here's the big question: what comes after the iPod?


  • — The future isn’t what it used to be

       (Wednesday, 11 October 2006 20:14)

    While there have been remarkable innovations in mass transit, lighter-than-air vehicles were not among them.“Follies of Science: 20th Century Visions of Our Fantastic Future” is a lavish visual compendium of art work, advertisements, cartoons, magazine covers and government documents, all depicting just how wonderful, or occasionally terrifying, the future will be.


  • — Will it matter if people can’t read?

       (Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:52)

    Educational doomsayers are again up in arms at a new adult literacy study showing that less than 5 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it.  The obsessive measurement of long-form literacy is once more being used to flail an education trend that is in fact going in just the right direction.


  • — What do futurists really know?

       (Thursday, 17 August 2006 11:04)

    The World Future Society conference in Toronto reveals that making accurate predictions isn’t necessarily what futurists do. It’s the act of stimulating creative thought. As one futurist said: "The future will always surprise us, but we must not let it dumbfound us."

  • — How Washington will shape the Internet?

       (Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:21)

    The most potent force shaping the future of the Internet is neither Mountain View’s Googleplex nor the Microsoft campus in Redmond.  It’s rather a small army of Gucci-shod lobbyists on Washington’s K Street and the powerful legislators whose favor they curry.

  • — Can Web 2.0 change the world?

       (Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:43)

    Some venture capitalists say that using Web 2.0 in your funding pitch is the quickest way to get thrown out of the office. In the not-for-profit world, however, Web 2.0 tools look like the biggest boost since the invention of the personal computer itself.

  • — Readers want Internet TV — but cheap!

       (Wednesday, 31 May 2006 20:43)

    Reader responses to Practical Futurist Michael Rogers column on how TV networks are adapting to the Internet. 

  • — TV networks begin to embrace Internet

       (Tuesday, 16 May 2006 19:36)

    Boob tube getting smart about Internet delivery.

  • — Smart homes should be eco-savvy

       (Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:39)

    Smart homes should be about more than just digital toys, Practical Futurist readers say. These days, a really smart home would do something about energy conservation

  • — Smart homes go mass market

       (Monday, 10 April 2006 13:38)

    As the housing boom slows down, new home builders need to find ways to compete.  Solution: the smart home.

  • — Readers offer own tales of tech demos

       (Thursday, 16 March 2006 20:54)

    Readers agreed: When you see a great technology demo, make sure to look behind the curtain.

  • — The art of the demo

       (Sunday, 05 March 2006 17:31)

    Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a revamped Mac Mini at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., on Feb. 28.Over the years, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has become a master of the technology art form known as the “demo.” The power of the demo should never be underestimated: it can change your life.


  • — Gene-doped athletes? Cool, say some

       (Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:52)

    A surprising number of readers felt that perhaps genetic engineering might present a new opportunity, rather than a threat, for sports.

  • — The Olympic rings meet the double helix

       (Sunday, 05 February 2006 20:20)

    Turin may be one of the last Olympics in history where athletes are tested only for drugs.  Gene doping is already coming into view— and it may someday prove nearly impossible to control.

  • — Gadgets need to be simpler, readers agree

       (Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:37)

    Readers agree that gadgetry has simply grown too complex, though a few argue that consumers also need to take responsibility.


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Futurist.com: Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra

This is the blog of Glen Hiemstra, futurist speaker, keynote speaker, futurist consultant, and founder of futurist.com

  • — Singularity Summit 2010

       (Tuesday, 20 July 2010 18:45)

    The possibility that accelerating scientific developments in information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence might converge into a “singularity” has been the subject of science and science fiction writing for some time. The idea most simply described is that at some point, perhaps by the year 2030, developments in these fields will reach a point [...]

  • — What if we create a better world

       (Tuesday, 20 July 2010 16:00)

    Love this….

  • — SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch – success!

       (Friday, 04 June 2010 15:02)

    Update on previous post: The SpaceX company of Elon Musk launched its Falcon 9 into orbit for the first time today – this is one of the private spacecraft that NASA is counting on for future access to space. After one aborted launch attempt that shut down automatically when telemetry readings were not correct, a [...]

  • — SpaceX Launch of Falcon 9 today – watch it

       (Friday, 04 June 2010 11:13)

    The SpaceX company of Elon Musk is scheduled to launch its Falcon 9 for the first time today – this is one of the private spacecraft that NASA is counting on for future access to space. Live launch video feed is available right now. Watch if you can…

  • — Underwater view is not clear

       (Tuesday, 25 May 2010 14:26)

    If you missed it today, this underwater diving expedition for ABC news by Philippe Cousteau Jr. and Sam Champion is worth watching. I have a foreboding that humans will sacrifice just about anything to acquire the last drops of oil, no matter the risks or the alternatives. I am not sure why we are so [...]

  • — Future of Energy

       (Tuesday, 20 April 2010 22:36)

    I just finished a day of consulting with GHD Engineering in Kuala Lumpur (I am doing a long range planning project with them) and we discussed, among many trends, the future of energy. As I flew back and forth I was reading the recent book by James Hansen, Storms of My Grandchildren. In it he [...]

  • — Workforce Health 2010: New Deal, New Dividend

       (Wednesday, 24 March 2010 23:47)

    This week I am in San Diego to attend and provide a closing keynote to the Employee Health Care Conference, a program of the Conference Board and Coopers and Towers Watson. In February we presented the same event in New York. My topic is 21st Century Health Care. While health care reform was up in [...]

  • — The Future of Outsourcing

       (Wednesday, 03 March 2010 18:22)

    Recently I had the chance to sit down with Kate Vitasek, author of the new book, Vested Outsourcing, with Mike Ledyard and Karl Manrodt. Outsourcing is a controversial but fundamental business activity – as Kate notes Peter Drucker used to say “Do what you do best and outsource the rest,” and the idea of finding [...]

  • — Climate Science Video – Is it Convincing?

       (Monday, 01 March 2010 17:58)

    As we watched the last days of the Olympics the past few days, I zeroed in on television ads sponsored by the American Oil & Gas industry – lots of these ads – and by the American coal industry. Both emphasized, with patriotic overtones, how important they are to creating jobs, and to achieving national [...]

  • — Back to the Future Transportation

       (Monday, 01 March 2010 17:04)

    One of the amusing, and sad, things about discussions of the future of transit in the U.S. is that it is so often discussed in one of two ways, both intended to make it seem rather outlandish. First, it is discussed as something vaguely foreign – sure, they have widespread transit in Europe, but we [...]