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Inspiring a Better World Ahead, the Museum of Future Inventions
What images come to mind when you think about the future? Do you think about near-term futures with 3D printers, driverless cars, and robotics, or do you think about more distant futures of space travel, human cloning, and teleportation...
Preparing Our Minds for Thoughts Unthinkable: The Future of Colleges and Universities
If you haven’t noticed, there’s a massive battle brewing in academia. No it’s not just a battle between MOOCs and traditional education. What’s at stake is nothing short of the future of humanity. Next generation academic systems will determine, from here on out, how...
Every Disaster Has a Beginning: In Search of Anomaly Zero
In 2012, when 15-year old Jack Andraka’s uncle died of pancreatic cancer, he decided to look into it. He found that the current test for pancreatic cancer was over 60 years old, cost over $800, and wasn’t very reliable. For this reason over 85% of pancreatic cancer...
Introducing the Fully-Automated 24-Hour City
Fifteen years ago I found myself stranded in the small town of Faith, South Dakota. It was 3:00 am in the morning and my car was out of gas. To give you a better idea of my predicament, this tiny town of 400 people was located 100 miles away from any significant...
By 2030 over 50 Percent of Colleges will Collapse
In 1791 when Mozart died, his 29-year-old wife, Constanze Weber, was forced to earn a living, so she began selling her late husband’s manuscripts and turned the former messy paper scraps lying around the house into a tidy income stream. Lucky for her, she lived after...
In Search of Humanity’s Prime Directive
A thousand years from now, what is it that the human race will need to have accomplished? Yes, I realize that this is a huge question and many of you reading this are living paycheck-to-paycheck worrying about who’s going to win the big game this weekend. But if we...
Proposal to Eliminate Forest Fires Completely
Over the past few days I’ve been listening to news reports about the devastating fires burning in Colorado. Record heat, high winds, low humidity, and large amounts of beetle-killed trees have created “perfect storm” conditions for multiple...
Who Controls the Education Industry?
Let’s first start off with a different question. "Who controls the bread supply in London?" This was the opening question that Jonas Eliasson started with in his TED talk titled “How to solve traffic jams.” As it turns out, there really is no...
Portrait of a New Radical: Hyper-Transparency and the Coming Radicalization of America
Over the past few days I’ve been wrestling with a very troubling thought. It started with the simple question, “Ten years from now, anyone who is frustrated with those in power, whether it’s a local, national, or international issue, what options will they have for...
The End of Theft
What does it mean to “own” something? I’m sure there are legal definitions, but most of us believe that once we purchase an item, we own it. Our relationship with that object shifts from ogler to owner in the blink of a cash register...
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