Futurist Blog

Question: As physical books go away, and computers and smart devices take their place, at what point does a library stop being a library, and start becoming something else? Somewhere in the middle of this question lies the nagging fear and anxiety that we see brimming...

Five years ago was the beginning of 2007. George Bush was President, Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor of California, Barack Obama wasn’t very well known, and Saddam Hussein had just been executed in Iraq. Five years ago the Dow Jones was on a tear, on track to break...

What music comes to mind when you try on your new pair of jeans? Does that “music in your head” somehow change when you try on a different brand? The next time you try on a piece of jewelry, pay very close attention to the emotional experiences that run through your...

On Wednesday I was invited to speak on a panel at the 2012 National Electricity Forum, an event sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, in Washington DC. In the audience were a thousand power industry executives, regulators, and key industry service providers. The...

A picture of me speaking at yesterday's TEDxReset in Istanbul. Yesterday I was honored to be one of the featured speakers at the TEDxReset Conference in Istanbul, Turkey where I predicted that over 2 billion jobs will disappear by 2030. Since my 18-minute talk was...

November 2009 was when Michael Migliozzi and Brian Flatow started a website called BuyaBeerCompany.com who's lofty goal was to buy the ailing century old Pabst Blue Ribbon beer company. In less than two years, working to match the $300 million sale price, the pair...

If you were traveling between Boston and Washington, DC, and had the choice of either flying or riding in a driverless car, which would you choose? Under good conditions this is an 8.5-hour drive vs. 4-5 hours flying - driving to the airport, wading through security,...

After spending the past three days scouring the showroom floors at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, watching people become overwhelmed by what they saw, I tended to be more underwhelmed by what I didn’t see. Smartphones, tablets, 3D televisions, and...

On December 29th, Verizon announced it would begin charging a $2 "convenience fee" for any customers paying monthly bills with a credit or debit card via the Internet or telephone. Within 24 hours, online petitions began to circulate and commenters voiced their...