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Seven Predictions for the Coming Age of Micronations
NOTE: The following article is a reprint of the cover article I wrote for the May/June 2009 issue of The Futurist Magazine. On a recent trip to the Middle East, I was granted the opportunity to speak at the Leaders in Dubai Business Forum along...
Future Libraries: Once a Refuge, Now They Mean Business
Establishing new relevancy standards amid a sea change of technology options and budget constraintsTraditionally a quiet place for lovers of books to unwind, libraries are a place for serious students to escape to, a treasure trove for aspiring writers -...
Creating the Ultimate Small Storage Particle
Creating the Ultimate Small Storage Particle When will we reach an endpoint? The answer (after the jump) will surprise you “When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with...
Watching the Income Tax System Implode
When it comes to our tax systems, we are living in caveman timesIn the movie The Day After Tomorrow, survivors stranded in a library are easily persuaded to burn the multi-volume IRS Tax Code to stay warm. In this fictional scenario, the question one might ask before...
The Last Bastion of Scarcity
When laws of supply and demand are replaced with scarcity and abundanceScience fiction has long dreamed of a post-scarcity society, and it's become quite common to hear discussions about transitioning from a world of scarcity to a world of abundance. But,...
The Future of Agriculture
Can better food create better people? Will a better food supply lead to healthier, stronger, better thinking people? This is exactly the premise that is driving many of the advances in farming today. To understand agribusiness in the future,...
When Systems Collapse
Rethinking our current systems andhow to make them functional once againThe panic that we hear coming from Wall Street and the halls of Washington, DC is not the typical panic associated with a recession. Instead, it is the seldom heard sounds of national...
Future Libraries: Nerve Center of the Community
Ever since the people of ancient Nineveh began storing and classifying their books nearly 3,000 years ago, libraries have been hallowed and largely unchanging bastions of learning. But in the information age, libraries have been caste with a...
Carnage for Dubai’s Creative Class
When policies and systems devastate innovationCars are being abandoned in record numbers at Dubai International Airport. The dust-covered Mercedes and BMW's at the Dubai International Airport is a tell-tale reminder of what is happening there. The number...
The Virtual Country
The Virtual Country Six Possible Scenarios for the Creation of Viable Virtual Countries The Internet, while still in its infancy, has created borderless economies, that are confusing the issues of power and control, and even the sovereignty of...
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