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When Wikipedia No Longer Matters
When the disruptors become the disrupted At what point will Wikipedia no longer matter? I’m going to go out on a limb here, but I predict a competitor will emerge to steal the majority of both mindshare and eyeballs from Wikipedia within the next ten years. No, I’m...
Inventing the Rocking Chair Tree
On Tuesday evening we had a packed audience at the DaVinci Institute to discuss the future of micro farming. Admittedly, we weren’t terribly well organized and the range of topics we touched on were far more than most of us could reasonably consider in a single...
Education as an App
In March of 2007 I posted my original paper on the Future of Education where I talked about a system based on an iTunes-like approach where experts around the world could use a “rapid courseware-builder” to produce bite-sized courses, send them to a global...
TEDxUChicago 2011 – Communicating with the Future
Futurist Thomas Frey at the TEDx University of Chicago event We are a very backward looking society. We’re very backward looking in that we’ve all personally experienced the past. As we look around, we see evidence of the past all around us. The past is very...
Direct to the People – Bypassing the Brokers
It has always seemed outrageous to me that in a world where so many people are dying of obesity, that we can still have an equally unacceptable number of people dying of starvation. Approximately 25% of the world’s population is overweight and 13% of the world goes to...
Signaling the Rebirth of Turkish Education
This was a photo I took of the audience from stage On April 30th I had the privilege of delivering the opening keynote to a group of over 1,200 VIPs at the International Education Forum II: "Innovation in Education" held in Ankara, Turkey. These were remarkable people...
Prize Competition #2: Viewing the Past
Do we even know what time is? Yes, we see the seconds clicking away on clocks, sunrise followed by sunset, tides coming in and going out, seasons changing from one to another, and little trees growing into big trees. These are all things we associate with the movement...
The Grand Experiment – Micro Agronomy
On Sunday, April 17th I had the privilege of being the opening speaker at the TEDx event at the University of Chicago. The lineup of speakers was quite impressive and I felt honored to be presenting on the same stage with them. The event attracted a young, high-energy...
Next Generation Home Ownership
Most young people today are asking the very simple question, “Why should I buy a home?” In the past answers were always framed around phrases like “rapid appreciation,” “good tax write-off,” “long-term investment,” and “building equity.” Today, real estate sales...
Eight Critical Skills for the Future
On Monday evening I presented my thoughts on the “Future of Mobile Apps & Peripherals” at our monthly Night with a Futurist event. My talk was followed by a fascinating panel discussion with three of the industry’s brightest minds – Michael Sitarzewski, Lisa...
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