Peter Balbus - Futurist and Speaker on Innovation and Technology
Peter Balbus is a futurist and expert in technology commercialization. He delivers riveting presentations on harnessing the economic power of innovation. His...
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Jeremy Rifkin - Global Technologist and Futurist
http://www.bigspeak.com/jeremy-rifkin.html Jeremy Rifkin is one of the world #39;s foremost authorities on the impact of scientific and technological changes on ...
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Impatient Consumers and the Hotel Industry - Futurist Speaker
Consumer impatience and the impact on the hotel industry. Most customers will leave a website if it takes more than 5 seconds to load, the same principle app...
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FUTURIST - (get on itunes)
enjoy https://wearefuturist.bandcamp.com/album/futurist.
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Exponential and combinatorial futures: all depends on ethics (Futurist Gerd at Tedx)
This is a short excerpt from my talk at TedXBrussels Dec 1 2014 on #digitalethics see http://youtu.be/DD5XVDKcuSo for the entire video Gerd Leonhard Futurist...
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Nick Webb | Healthcare Futurist
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Breaking Down the Ivory Tower of Medicine - The Medical Futurist
For thousands of years, medical information has been collected into books to understand diseases, treatments options or diagnostics even more. For thousands ...
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The Top 9 Books About The Future Of Medicine - The Medical Futurist
I #39;ve been reading amazing books that focus on the future of medicine, what changes we can expect to see in healthcare in a few years #39; time from different angles and perspectives so I thought...
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The Global Economy #39;s Effect on Irish Hotels - Futurist Speaker
The global economy and the impact on the Irish hotel industry. The global economic crisis showed the future power of the emerging markets who remained in growth even in the crisis years. Long...
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Genius futurist, entrepreneur and expert Twiterrer Elon Musk revealed some new information about SpaceXs most recent reusable rocket landing attempt following the launch of its Dragon space capsule to resupply the International Space Station. In a conversation with John Carmack, formerly of ID and current VR software guru at Oculus, Musk shared still frames from SpaceXs autonomous seafaring drone landing ship, which show the rockets RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly) in spectacular glory.
Musk had previously revealed that the rocket landed hard, but despite its fantastic fireball, the test was actually a relative success for SpaceXs efforts to recapture its first stage rocket for re-use. Explosions arent always signs of failure when youre dealing with science, and in the case of spacefaring tech thats even more true.
After posting the photos (and new SpaceX Vine, just added) above, Musk also reiterated that SpaceX will get another chance to test the landing and recovery capabilities of its reusable rockets and the autonomous barges it is using as mobile landing platforms in about two to three weeks time. With his trademark wry humour, he said the next test would involve way more hydraulic fluid, and that it sh[ould] explode for a diff[erent] reason at the very least. Failing for new reasons is basically the definition of scientific progress, is basically what hes getting at.
Musk ended his flurry of tweets saying his motivation in posting the photos to Carmack is a desire to get the legendary programmer back into aerospace tech. Carmack founded Armadillo Aerospace back in 2000, with the aim of building suborbital space tourism spacecraft, but essentially shuttered the project in 2013, so Musk may be only half-kidding.
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Digital Ethics and the future of humanity. Gerd Leonhard Futurist Keynote Speaker TedXBrussels
The complete video of my talk at at http://www.tedxbrussels.eu/ Thanks to the team for making this available! Original version at http://youtu.be/bZn0IfOb61U See http://www.futuristgerd.com/2014/...
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Future of Corporate Events in Ireland - Futurist Speaker
Future of corporate conferences and events in Ireland. It #39;s already with over 100 million Euros to the Irish economy, and looks set to continue to grow. Unique events are preferred by corporations...
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The average American worker spends almost half an hour commuting each day, but virtual traffic lights could cut that almost in half.
If traditional traffic lights were replaced with virtual ones, the results could include not only a reduction of up to 40 percent in urban workers' commute times, but also lower carbon emissions, less congestion and fewer accidents, a study from Carnegie Mellon University suggests.
"These systems could be made even smarter and more efficient, tweaking things like how many cars you let go by in the main direction during rush hour before letting the side street traffic in," Roger Kay, founder and president of Endpoint Technologies Associates, told TechNewsWorld.
"There's a whole lot of work that could be done in this area, essentially sociological programming," added Kay, who has been enthusiastic about the concept for several years.
Based on vehicle-to-vehicle technology mandates expected within the United States, virtual traffic lights will appear not on the street, but on drivers' windshields as they approach an intersection.
"When the driver is looking through the windshield, they'll see that going straight is a green light, and turning right is a red light," explained Ozan Tonguz, a Carnegie Mellon professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering who helped develop the technology. "It's a seamless process -- the driver does not get involved in this decision making."
Once the driver proceeds through the intersection, the virtual traffic light will disappear.
CMU startup Virtual Traffic Lights is working on commercializing the patented technology.
"I think this technology can hit the market in most large cities around the world within one to two years," Tonguz told TechNewsWorld. "We are currently looking for partners and investments to implement this technology on a large scale."
Virtual Traffic Light tech can be used "as a standalone technology for traffic management," he said. "In addition, it could be used in conjunction with autonomous cars -- pursued by Google and several car manufacturers -- and congestion pricing, which is used by IBM and several other companies in different countries to mitigate congestion during rush hours."
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The UK industry gathered in London yesterday to debate the future of the office supplies sector.
The Future of the Office Products Industry Conference was hosted by local trade association BOSS Federation (BOSSF) and was pretty well-attended at a senior level by many of the markets larger players.
The audience enjoyed a number of punchy, brief views on the state of the sector from many leading executives and, while it is fair to say that several of the presentations overlapped in terms of content, the overriding message taken away by most delegates is that change is both inevitable and desperately needed if the sector is to avoid going the same way as many other now-almost defunct industries, such as book retailing, video rental, etc.
The single biggest unanswered question is, however, who will lead the industry down the path of change? Conventional wisdom suggests that event organisers BOSSF ought to be the logical starting place, but even the relevance and future of that association itself was questioned publicly at the event in a development we reported on separately yesterday.
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Future of Media, Marketing, Advertising and Agencies: Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard
at Agency Symposium 2014 in Hunter Valley, Australia. See more details and download the slides via my blog ...
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Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) January 13, 2015
According to Marge Breya, Executive VP and CMO of Informatica, "The fastest-growing asset class in enterprises, governments, and individuals is information. Digital media. Sensor data. Relationships. Doubling every year, its growing faster than Twitter. Faster than cell phones. Faster than the birth, retirement, or death rate." According to futurist Jack Uldrich, in order for people to embrace all the change, unlearning is required.
Information, says Breya, is "increasingly fragmented. Mobile, social, SaaS, and global value chains have accelerated the fragmentation. And the holy grail of consumer, employee, and citizen behavior lives beyond the scope of any single big data clusterno matter how big."
Informatica, based in over 28 countries worldwide, is holding the Informatica Sales Kickoff 2015 Partner Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada January 11-13th and global Futurist Jack Uldrich will be delivering the keynote, "The Future Demands Unlearning" for the event.
According to Uldrich, "New advances in information technology bring forth exciting discoveries every day. But often lost in this new reality is the fact that organizations must unlearn old, obsolete knowledge and old ways of doing business, before they can seize tomorrows opportunities."
While Uldrich does not purport to be a Zen-Master his teachings do tend to encompass some Eastern philosophies. He often quotes Lao Tzu--"In order to attain knowledge add something every day. In order to attain wisdom, subtract something every day," and one of his latest blog posts is entitled "Seeing What You Can't See." Uldrich says, "Unlearning by it's very nature tends to have some Zen-like qualities."
Hailed by BusinessWeek as Americas Chief Unlearning Officer Uldrich, in his keynote, will explain why unlearning is a critical skill for Informatica. He argues that creativity and action are more powerful and versatile than knowledge, and the application of these things in combination with unlearning will help future-proof any organization.
Following his speech in Las Vegas Uldrich will continue on to speak in Arizona, New York, Florida and Alabama and Utah on such topics as, "The Twelve Trends Transforming Tomorrow," and "The BIg AHA: How to Future-Proof Your Business Against Tomorrow's Transformational Trends, Today."
Parties interested in learning more about him, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website. Media wishing to know more about either the event or interviewing Jack as a futurist or trend expert can contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.
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Matt Thornhill - Futurist Keynote Speaker
Contact Michael Norvell at 804-342-1774 or mnorvell@sirresearch.com to book Matt Thornhill for your next event, conference, or retreat. http://www.buildabett...
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The digital transformation of society, what it means for the building industry (Futurist Keynote)
This is my entire keynote for http://www.arkitektbedriftene.no/X-trem-oppussing in Oslo on December 3, 2014. More details and the PDF with the slides can be ...
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Overview and Summary: Digital Transformation Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard at FINCO 2014
This is a short summary version of my presentation at SONAE #39;s FINCO event in Lisbon, on October 27, 2014. Thanks to SONAE for making this available; original...
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Dealing With The Information Overload - The Medical Futurist
Just like you, every single day I face an ocean of information. It #39;s really hard to keep myself up-to-date in my fields of interest, it #39;s really hard to tackle the information overload....
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