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Four Rules for Game Testing Our Way to a Better Future
At a recent video game tournament in Denver called ClutchCon, I was moderating a panel discussion on the future of video games, and we got into the topic of leveraging the time and energy spent playing video games into a “wisdom of crowds” approach for solving the...
37 Critical Problems that need to be Solved for Drone Delivery to become Viable
It all started when Toni, one of our staffers working on our flying drone workshop, asked me a simple question. She asked, “Since I live in an apartment complex, if I order something to be delivered by drone, where would they leave the...
Technological Unemployment and our Need for Micro Colleges
Business owners today are actively deciding whether their next hire should be a person or a machine. After all, machines can work in the dark and don’t come with decades of HR case law requiring time off for holidays, personal illness, excessive overtime, chronic...
12 Emerging Trends that Everyone Missed at CES
< Every year that I attend CES in Las Vegas I reach a point of sensory overload. It’s not just from all the people, lights, noise, and smells, but an overload of product strategies and emerging trends for the coming year. With everything from R2D2 showing up...
What Comes after the Nation State? – Fractal Governance
In the beginning life was simple, just land and people. No borders, no restrictions, and no governments breathing down everyone’s neck. Over time, cultures formed around a common language and geography determined many aspects of lifestyle. As an example, people who...
Top 10 Most Influential Columns in 2014
Over the past year we’ve delved into a variety of different topics on FuturistSpeaker.com and naturally some have been more popular than others. Sometimes it’s the headlines, other times the graphics, but in the end it’s the subject matter and content that will...
My Conversation Last Night with Adolph Hitler
No, it wasn’t exactly what I had planned. The year is 2026, and what began as a simple quiet evening at my local library, culminated with me coming face to face with one of the most reviled men in all history. As I entered the library, I caught a glimpse of a new room...
The Coming Era of Mega Systems, Part 1 – Transportation
Let me begin with a couple questions. Question #1: The U.S. has two countries that touch its borders – Canada and Mexico. But what is its third closest neighbor? While most would probably look at the island nations in the Caribbean, the third closest is actually...
Introducing the Maslow Self-Actualization House
For the past several months I’ve become enamored with the idea of creating a self sufficient, connectionless home. Not only is the home off-grid, creating it’s own power, heat, and air-conditioning, but also it’s own water supply, compost, and...
What Industries will produce the First Trillionaires?
A few weeks ago I got into a discussion with some friends centered around this question. “What, in your mind, will be the most powerful entity in the world 100 years from now?” As we look around us today, it’s easy to point to a single nation as being the most...
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