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Six Radical Trends Redefining the Hotel of the Future
A few nights ago, I arrived at a very nice Radisson Blu Hotel in Minneapolis for my talk on the “hotel of the future.” My client was the good people on the Board of Carlson & Rezidor Hotels, the group responsible for a large number of...
Will there be Swarmbots in Your Future?
Imagine stepping out of the shower in the morning, and rather than reaching for a towel, a swarm of thousands of flying drones will surround you and begin to dry you off. A few seconds after drying your skin, the same swarm will begin to attend...
How Long Before I Can 3D Print a Replacement Body for Myself?
A couple weeks ago I turned 60. I remember how old 60 was when I was a kid, and now I'm here. As a person who spends a lot of time asking “what if” questions, constantly thinking about extreme possibilities, the notion of 3D printing a replacement body for myself...
Launching the Whole Earth Genealogy Project
Some of us get bitten by the genealogical bug early in life, others a bit later. But there are few of us who haven’t been haunted by the question - where did I come from? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. So when University of Southern California researchers...
The Next Great Space Race – Space-Based Power Stations
Earth’s appetite for power continues to grow. Since the 1960s, power consumption has quadrupled around the globe, with many countries opting to build large oil and coal plants to meet the demand. But for Japan, a burgeoning economy without...
Betting on Your Future Self
Every day we wake up different. Moment by moment, our lives are changing. Much like a strobe light with flashes of memories jumping through our minds we randomly recall where we’ve been. It happens something like this: …and then I woke up …and...
Disposable Houses
When it comes to doing something first, and winning the technology race, there are typically no official forms to fill out, no rulebooks, no judges, and certainly no deadlines. In fact, when it came to using 3D printers to print an entire...
The Singularity and Our Collision Path with the Future
Google’s Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, has predicted that we will reach a technological singularity by 2045, and science fiction writer Vernor Vinge is betting on 2029, a date that is ironically on the hundredth anniversary of the...
Which Requires More Faith, Science or Religion?
For the past several months I’ve been wrestling with this topic, and how to discuss it from a centrist viewpoint. In an era where the science vs. religion debate has become an increasingly polarizing issue, we see both sides using their own brand of logic as the...
The Great Barrier Backlash
My wife Deb and I just returned from a weeklong trip to South Korea where much of our travel inside the country involved riding on the high-speed KTX Train (Korean Transit eXpress) from city to city. The train is designed for speeds up to 350...
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