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Top 13 ‘Futurist Speaker’ Columns in 2013
2013 has been a year of considerable change for both me and the rest of our team at the DaVinci Institute. While most of what you see here on Futurist Speaker is about my research, thinking, and philosophy on the future, I thought this might be a good time to step...
Competing for the Title – World’s Chief Innovator
When Thomas Edison died he left a gaping hole. He was credited with inventing everything from the electric light bulb, to the phonograph, to the movie projector, to the stock ticker, to the motion picture camera, to the entire movie industry. He lived during an age of...
33 Dramatic Predictions for 2030
Humanity will change more in the next 20 years than in all of human history. By 2030 the average person in the U.S. will have 4.5 packages a week delivered with flying drones. They will travel 40% of the time in a driverless car, use a 3D printer to print...
Technology’s Threat to the Future of Sports – Part 1
Recently I returned from a trip to Seoul, Korea where I was asked to speak at the Global Sports Marketing Forum on the “future of sports.” This event was part of a series being planned to draw attention to the 2018 Winter Olympics in...
When Wasting Time becomes a Crime
Every time I delete spam from my inbox, I feel a tiny piece of my life flitter away. Sitting needlessly at stoplights, or watching the minutes tick away as I wait in some line, or being forced to fill out yet another form, our precious time is...
Where do great ideas come from? More importantly, where do they go?
Recently my wife Deb came up with a rather comical phrase to describe her occasional memory lapse, referring to it as her “photogeriactric memory.” A quick Facebook post later and she had released this brilliant new phrase into the wild....
Optimizing Evil
Would the world be a better place if Adolph Hitler never existed? While many people will argue over who exactly was the worst of the worst, with names like Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, Idi Amin, Ivan the Terrible, Genghis Khan, Nero, Osama bin Laden,...
Have we reached peak employment? 24 future industries that will lead to an era of super employment!
It’s easy to spot signs of desperation in people’s eyes. With unemployment rates at persistently high levels and young people unable to find jobs from one year to the next, we have become a society seething with anxiety. I often get asked if we are headed into an era...
Competing for the World’s Largest Infrastructure Project: Over 100 Million Jobs at Stake
Elon Musk and Daryl Oster, competing for what could become the world's largest infrastructure project When Tesla Motors CEO, Elon Musk, mysteriously leaked that he was working on his Hyperloop Project, the combination of secrecy, cryptic...
Introducing Synaptical Currency Theory – Assigning Value to Brain Capital
What has been the hardest problem you’ve had to solve in your life? As I step you through this question, just focus on the ones where you actually found a solution. For some of you, this may have included things like finding a job, finding a...
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