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Ten New Parks to Inspire the Mind and Redefine the Communities We Live In
Participatory Parks will Create New Cultures in Communities Choosing to Charter Their Own DestinyGreat cities throughout history were known far and wide for the grand parks that served as their centerpieces. But what do we think about today when we conjure up the...
Fractal Transactions
Launching a New Era in the Future of Money Imagine yourself sometime in the future sitting in front of a television, watching your favorite show, and a pizza commercial comes on. This is one of those commercials that hits you at exactly the right time and you...
2050 and the Future of Transportation
Frictionless vehicles and binary power will define transportation in the world ahead Transportation technology is progressing at a much slower pace than some of the other sciences such as information technology, biotech, and nanotechnology. As an example, the world's...
The Happiness Index
A New Way to Measure the World Around Us What is the value of being happy? Yes, happiness means different things to different people, but even without having a common definition, happiness has become a significant focal point of study and research around the world....
Creating the Ultimate Information Experience
Planning Our Next Generation Libraries Literacy is a learned skill involving an ability to transform characters on paper into mental concepts and images. Listening to an audio book requires a slightly different skill, but requires the ability to transform audio sounds...
Nano-Weaponry: Entree to a Twisted Reality
Invisible to the human eye, nano diameter needles will be shot like clusters of bullets from great distances to “pin” people to a wall or freeze their physical movement. Nano needles, because of their incredibly tiny diameter, will be the ultimate non-lethal weapon,...
The New, New Language Wars
When the United States was founded, only 40 percent of the people living within its boundaries spoke English as their first language. Today that number is 87%. For most of us, English is like the air we breathe: natural, given, right. However,...
Some Thoughts on Flying Cars
Terrafugia - Redefining the flying car What exactly is a flying car? My life is a bit unusual in that I often have conversations with people about the topic of flying cars. Since I was a child I dreamed about the day that we would have flying...
Radical Transparency
The Whole Earth Genealogy Project - Where will it lead? Starting with a concept for creating the genealogy for the entire earth, here is a fascinating journey into the topic of radical transparency. In 1999 I came up with the idea of creating...
The Complexity Disease
Complexity is a Very-Real, Very-Destructive Disease that Destroys Human-Based Systems By Thomas Frey, Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute Often time we hear about some new disease that sounds kind of phony and quickly discard it because it...
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