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The Future of Education is beginning to take Shape
Imagine getting up every morning and putting on a pair of smart glasses, or smart contacts, to begin your day. This simple act is what will link you to your digital twin, a twin formed around all the information you physically and mentally consume daily. While there...
Top 10 Futurist Speaker Columns for 2022
It seemed like a good idea to close out 2022 with an overview of the ten most impactful columns of the year. The rating system we used was one where the editors at FuturistSpeaker.com all weighed in and decided which columns would most likely have a significant impact...
Can we Have Another Wave of Globalization Despite Ongoing Disruption?
Fifty years ago, very few people talked about globalization. Cross-border travel was both difficult and expensive. Communication requires human translators. Transporting goods and services across borders and oceans was complex and uncertain. The Internet helped change...
In Case You Didn’t Get the Memo, the Nature of Work Has Just Changed
COVID changed many things in our lives; not the least was the nature of work. While we’ve been busy figuring out if remote and hybrid work is here to stay, another more fundamental change has been picking up steam – the four-day workweek. Curmudgeons and...
On the Road to Greener Concrete
It’s rare that the opportunity to preserve resources, recycle resources, enhance quality, and improve cost efficiency all come together to deliver an important, improved product that the world uses in abundance every day. We live on a finite planet with a finite...
Bridging the Darién Gap, the Final Piece of the Pan-American Highway
In 2015, I was speaking at a Quebec Transportation Authority event in Montreal on the future of transportation. The attendees included transportation experts from around the world, including Colombia Transportation Minister Natalia Abello Vives, whom I happened to sit...
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...
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