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The End of the Internal Combustion Engine
Two recent developments will speed up the world’s transition to all-electric cars ... and the demise of automobile/light vehicle internal combustion engines (ICE). At the recent COP 26 conference in Glasgow, more than 100 entities signed the Glasgow Accord on Zero...
Are we heading towards a Technological Singularity?
No one would argue that technology is progressing at a rapid pace. Blockchain, virtual reality, 3D printing, autonomous transportation – it’s difficult to keep up with developments in these and other breakthrough technologies. Major areas of innovation are arriving...
DAOs: Paving the way for Boss Less Businesses and Organizations of the Future
Blockchain technology is continuing to transform fundamental institutions. We saw this first with cyber currency and related financial systems, then with art and entertainment, and now you can add organizational structures to that list. Since blockchain can encrypt...
9 Dimensions of “What’s Next” for the Great Resignation
Nearly every organization I work with or interact with is desperately trying to staff up. They’re not necessarily growing; they’re just trying to get back to pre-COVID staffing levels because the pre-COVID demand levels for their goods and services have returned. But...
Play to Earn Gaming is Creating a Whole New Breed of Unicorn Startups
We’re seeing new opportunities to create monetary value based on blockchain and cyber currency. Crypto mining is one way, of course, as “miners” stack computers to create block equations that are verified and confirmed, adding to the blockchain and the assets of the...
The Race to Find the Killer App for Quantum Computing
Our world is complex, and the state of matter surrounding us is rarely as clear-cut as we tend to think. Physical matter, nature, choices, etc. are not always definitive with respect to location, amounts, accuracy, and certainty. Situations are not always reducible to...
Twelve Technologies Destined to Change Our Future
If you ask ten different people what were the most important inventions in all history, you'll likely get ten different answers. Here's one pretty good list from National Geographic that would be hard to argue with: Printing press Light bulb Airplane Personal computer...
Introducing the New and Improved Woolly Mammoth… Well, Sort Of
Over the last few weeks, there have been a number of news articles about the plans of tech entrepreneur Ben Lamm and Harvard geneticist George Church to revive the Woolly Mammoth. They recently received $15 million in investment money from the billionaire Winklevoss...
The Future of Asteroid Mining
Never say never. That’s one principle of futurism that proves itself time and time again. Driverless vehicles. Citizen travel in space. Robots. Global currencies. Alternate universes. Mars exploration. At some point in history, each seemed like a pipe dream, if not...
The History of the Metaverse
The metaverse is the collective assortment of byte-based alternatives to features of the physical, atomized world. The metaverse is in our future with or without our permission. We’ve taken too many steps in that direction already to stop it. And as we noted just a...
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