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The World’s Next Megaproject – Artificial Glaciers
In the future, we’ll need to rely increasingly on technological breakthroughs to create systems that move water from where it is to where it needs to be and to get it there when it needs to be there. Agriculture, transportation, manufacturing processes,...
Stress Testing Crypto – A New Era of Regulators is About to Begin
I’ve always been bullish on crypto. Not necessarily as a short-term speculative investment strategy but because of its promise to accommodate many future aspects of personal finance. The industry and some of its products have had some pretty spectacular ups and downs...
We Didn’t Arrive Here by Accident
A few months ago, my son Kyler asked me, “How many people do you think live their entire life without understanding what their purpose is?” My initial response was, “I’m guessing it’s around 98%.” After I thought about it a bit more, I revised my answer. “Actually, I...
The Coming Era of Dynamic or “Living” NFTs
Gone are the days of static non-fungible tokens, often referred to as simple NFTs. Next-generation use cases for NFTs are granting these blockchain-secured digital assets far more utility … and very soon, they’ll be more prevalent in our lives than ever before. We’ve...
Eight Reasons Why the Future of Personalized Medicine will involve 3D-Printed Pharmaceuticals
While I started talking about 3D pill printers nearly ten years ago, today we are seeing incredible breakthroughs in personalized medicine emerging along two fronts: Diagnostic Breakthroughs, for example, with genetic, DNA, and molecular testing to uncover possible...
How Will Elon Musk’s Tesla Pi Phone Get Us Closer to the “Ultimate Phone” of the Future?
We can always count on Elon Musk to deliver, if not a new branch of technology, at least game-changers in existing technology. He’s not that into incrementalism and minor iterative improvements. In some ways, though, his latest venture, the Tesla Pi Phone, seems to be...
Will There Be Robotic Dogs in your Future? Using Question Mapping to Help Reveal the Future
In this column, I’d like to demonstrate a strategic futurism technique I use called Question Mapping. It’s a technique I teach in our soon-to-be—re-released course, Future Like A Boss! Question mapping is an exercise that opens one’s mind to explore different elements...
Hyper-Individualized Learning for a Hyper-Individualized Future
Hyper-personalization is an AI, data-driven, machine-learning process that many of us are familiar with – if not by name, then by annoying experiences related to the online advertisements for products and services that come across our devices. We leave behind cookie...
The History of the Office … and Why it Matters for the Office of the Future
Recently, I was listening to a podcast from Marc Andreessen, who commented that there were no headquarters for the Roman Empire since people back then didn't really have a need for offices. I'm not sure that's completely true. After all, the Romans did invent the...
The Shifting Stage towards Non-Public Education
COVID, politics, and Covid-politics spurred divisions and antagonisms between people and certain institutions, including K-12 education. As a result, education in the future will be different and likely more complex as we exit these tumultuous times into a new normal....
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