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Will Artificial Intelligence Improve Democracy or Destroy It?
There’s a big difference between what a person wants and what they need. On one hand we need healthy food, a good night’s rest, and decent medical care. But a little voice inside our heads has us craving dinner at Gordon Ramsay’s, an overnight stay at the Ritz...
Fixing our Insanely Broken Sales Tax System
At a recent visit to our local hairdresser, my wife and I were informed by the enterprising young lady that she was no longer selling her line of retail hair products. Filling out the monthly sales tax reports had simply become too onerous, and...
Introducing the Futurist Hall of Fame
Over the coming months the DaVinci Institute will be unveiling the world’s first Futurist Hall of Fame.As with other “hall of fame” efforts, this one will be dedicated to drawing attention to those who have contributed the most to our thinking about the...
Entering the Era of Super Scalability – The Billion-Benchmark Club
It was a monumental event that no one noticed. Just before 1800 the number of people on earth had climbed to what was then believed to be an astronomically large number – 1 billion. While this was indeed a landmark event, the occasion passed...
How Long Before a Robot Chef Beats an Iron Chef?
Will humans soon be battling for their survival against robots? Even though this has become a favorite Hollywood theme, the likelihood of that happening is nearly zero. Yes, we will have many clashes with human-controlled robots doing battle...
Does Social Media have a Polarization Problem?
Wael Ghonim was a young computer engineer working for Google in Egypt when he became a central figure in the events leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011. In early 2011, Wael created a Facebook page titled, "A Revolution against Corruption,...
The 1,000-Revenue Stream Lifestyle
In his famous poem, William Shakespeare begins with the lines, “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” But what if that were true in more than just an allegorical sense? No, I’m not talking about the philosophical underpinnings of divine...
The Future of Ignorance
In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall set out to discover if the human soul weighed anything. Working in the local old age home, he conducted a series of experiments where he weighed six patients on a precision scale both before and after they breathed their last breath....
Twelve Critical Skills for the Future
In the early 1990s, psychologist Robin Dunbar studied the social connections within groups of monkeys and apes. He theorized that the maximum size of their overall social group was limited by the size of their neocortex. Based on our neocortex...
Top 10 Columns for 2015
2015 saw 42 new unicorn companies ($1B+ valuation) take center stage, the most ever, and a clear indication that the scalability of Internet will redefine the business landscape for generations to come. For this reason, no industries are safe, nor should they be. Many...
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