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In September 1989, GE Chairman Jack Welch flew to Bangalore, India for a breakfast meeting with an Indian delegation that included Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi. The purpose of his trip was to sell airplane engines and medical equipment to...
Colorado’s Opportunity to Take the Lead in the Alternative Transportation Marketplace
The first time I rode on a Segway, I was confused. Even though I loved the experience, I couldn’t quite figure out how it would fit into my life. It wasn’t going to replace my car and it certainly wasn’t a substitute for my bicycle, so what...
The Urgency of Purpose and the Forward Movement of Failure
As a futurist I spend much of my time tracking failure. Why failure? Because they are the unforgiving anchors around which society changes directions. In the U.S. we are now witnessing a record number of failures taking place. Just look around....
How Google Glass will Disrupt the Hearing Aid Industry?
Hearing aids are for old people. At least that’s what I thought when I was young and invincible attending rock concerts far louder than they should have been. Even though I still have most of my hearing relatively intact, I’m also part of the...
Downloadable Personalities for Your Computer
Fifteen years ago in an article I wrote for The Futurist Magazine, I made the prediction that once we had talking computers, we would soon have downloadable personalities to create a more human-like experience. I went on to suggest that most of...
Monitoring People from Space: The Good the Bad, and the Ugly
Monitoring People from Space: The Good the Bad, and the Ugly In the late 1980s, I was an engineer working as part of an IBM team to build a mobile satellite command and control center for monitoring missile launches from space. This contract was part of Regan’s “Star...
Piercing the Field of Knowability
As a futurist, I’ve always been interested in our relationship with the future. But lately I’ve become obsessed with understanding more about the dividing line between the present and the future. I constantly find myself asking questions like,...
Credit Banks, Testing Centers, and Micro-Credits – Missing Elements of a Future Education System
A couple years ago I was on a weekend outing in Vail, Colorado and ended up attending a kayaking tournament taking place on the Gore Creek in the heart of town. Fascinated by this sport, which I knew very little about, I had a chance to talk...
10 Unanswerable Questions that Neither Science nor Religion can Answer
A few years ago I was taking a tour of a dome-shaped house, and the architect explained to me that domes are an optical illusion. Whenever someone enters a room, their eyes inadvertently glance up at the corners of the room to give them the contextual dimensions of...
Should We Revive Extinct Species?
Like many others, I’m a fan of TED Talks and a Feb 2013 talk by Stuart Brand titled “The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?” has caught much of the world off guard. For those of you who aren’t familiar with this topic, biotech is currently accelerating four times...
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