Futurist John Smart Discusses Future of Energy at World Future Society 2014 in Orlando, Florida
This is an interview with futurist John Smart in Orlando, Florida, during the World Future Society 2014, on July 12, 2014. Interview is conducted and uploade...
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Futurist Dr. Jagdish Sheth on America #39;s Changing Demographics
For forty years, Dr. Jagdish Sheth has been predicting the future. He might say, more modestly, that he forecasts the future, but his research into consumer behavior, multivariate methods,...
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Richard Worzel - Futurist and Innovation Speaker
Leading forecaster and futurist Richard Worzel is a Chartered Financial Analyst and best-selling author of Who Owns Tomorrow?. Richard is also a frequent med...
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Albuquerques newly renovated Convention Center has landed a futurist conference scheduled next year.
Mayor Richard Berry and the Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau announced this afternoon that something called the Face the Future Conference will be held Downtown for the next five years. Next years event will be the first, so its not clear how many people it will attract.
The conference has already lined up a host of speakers who will address the future of private space travel, robotics, investment and other topics.
From a meetings and tourism perspective, having a conference of this magnitude here opens the door for future high-level bookings, as well, Dale Lockett of ACVB said in a news release. Plus, the fact that the conference has agreed to let Albuquerque host for at least its first five years will provide a tremendously positive economic.
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Emerging Future: Technology Issues and Trends MOOC Module 3 - Think Like a Futurist
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Futurist Series: David Rowan, editor of WIRED
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When it comes to the future of energy, futurist Jack Uldrich has plenty to say: "From the outside, the utility industry may appear to slow, cumbersome and resistant to change. These characterizations may or may not be fair, but I do know the industry is poised for extraordinary change in the years ahead and that what has served the industry well in the past wont be sufficient for remaining competitive in the future."
Just what will keep the energy industry ahead of the game is precisely the content of Uldrich's keynote to the Western Energy Institute's Annual Meeting on September 8th in Kelowna, British Columbia.
Western Energy Institute (WEI) is a regional association serving the electric and gas industries, both public and private, throughout the Western United States and Canada. Based in Portland, Oregon, WEI was formed in October 2000 from two longstanding industry associations - the Western Electric Power Institute (WEPI) founded in 1908, and the Pacific Coast Gas Association (PCGA) founded in 1893.
WEIs membership is comprised of 70 energy companies, including gas pipeline, electric and gas distribution, electric generation, power marketers and over 175 industry service providers. WEI offers a member-driven, open learning environment to develop effective leaders and ensure well-trained employees.
WEI has chosen Uldrich, a highly acclaimed futurist and public speaker whose aim is to help them and their member companies thrive in increasingly competitive energy markets. Uldrich has worked with a number of companies and dozens of trade associations in the utility industry including Southern Company, SDG&E, SMUD, Eaton, BP, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Missouri River Energy, Northwest Energy, Idaho Power and the Northeast and Northwest Public Power Associations.
Uldrich's presentations have been described as "inspiring, thought provoking, motivational, and practical all at oncewith a huge dose of practicality intricately added to the mix." All of which is needed for the future of the energy industry. Following his keynote for WEI, Uldrich will be addressing leaders in finance at AgBank in Minneapolis, the PMMI in Chicago, as well as the The National Council for Continuing Education & Training in Denver, among others.
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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Politicians are often accused of failing to look past the next election. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx wants to look past the next fifteen.
Foxx is leading a DOT effort to create a 30-year outlook for the state of transportation in the U.S., an ambitious effort he hopes will shift the country out of its stubborn, single-track focus on the short-term needs of keeping solvent the Highway Trust Fund. Instead, he wants to take a broader look at how the country plans on moving an additional 100 million people by 2050 and all the goods those Americans will buy.
In a sit-down interview with POLITICO on Friday, Foxx was blunt.
Were having the wrong conversation about transportation in this country, he said. There are a host of factors that are colliding, that are changing the ground underneath us. But yet our policies, not to mention our funding, arent keeping up. I think its very important for us to have a new reset.
Foxx ticked off those factors: technological innovation, a population moving into denser metro areas and demographic shifts.
Lots of forces are converging to create a very disruptive set of conditions, he said. We need to lay out what we think policymakers are going to be facing over the next 30 years. Because right now were having conversations about transportation funding that are really disconnected from the conversations about policy we need to be having.
Foxx is frustrated with the narrow focus on finding money for the trust fund which Congress patched yet again before leaving for the August recess and he expressed the need to focus more on how federal transportation dollars are spent.
My hope is that people will take a look at this, and some of the unexamined assumptions weve had about transportation in the last couple of decades will start to be examined, and policymakers hopefully will understand we cant just concern ourselves with the funding side of the equation, that how that funding is actually deployed is a key piece of how we move forward, he said.
If Congress had succeeded in getting the Highway Trust Fund stabilized, many people in Washington would have considered that as accomplishing the mission, he said. And thats just not the case.
Foxx wants to reveal a report by the end of the year and promises a robust outreach effort before then. He will host five webinars to gather feedback from transportation groups and government bodies, and DOT staff will also regularly solicit feedback. While he emphasized the plan wouldnt promote specific policy ideas, he did drop a few hints about the areas DOT could focus on.
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The day when drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), fill the sky is no longer a futurist ideal but an impending reality. Drones have traditionally only been used for military and academic purposes, but within a few years they will be used commercially. Business Insider predicts that 12% of an estimated US$98 billion in global spending on drones over the next decade will be for commercial purposes.
Amazon Prime Air, Google Google Project Wing, Facebook and even NASA are all working on drone technology. Start-ups like Airware are working to provide drone hardware and software to deploy on missions from infrastructure inspection to humanitarian campaigns. Last year, Dominoes Pizza in the U.K. trialed pizza delivery with a drone called the DomiCopter; this year a pizzeria in Mumbai did the same. Now Dronies are the new Selfies, where people use drones with cameras to capture their group shots.
Flirtey Founder and CEO, Matthew Sweeny
Flirtey, a Sydney and Nevada based start-up is aiming to be one of the worlds first UAV delivery companies. The company conducted a world-first drone delivery test back in October 2013 and to date has conducted over a hundred successful test deliveries of textbooks, with its partner Zookal.
Flirtey has struck a partnership with The University of Nevada, Reno, a leading research center for Unmanned Autonomous Systems (UAS). In exchange for equity, the University is providing access to its R&D labs for design, manufacture and research collaboration plus its indoor flight-testing facilities and supply graduate students to work with the company.
Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada said, I am excited to welcomeFlirteyto the Nevada family. The partnership between Flirteyand the University of Nevada, Reno demonstrates a commitment to our shared vision of building a vibrant and sustainable economy.The collaboration betweenFlirteyand UNR will send a strong message that Nevada is a leader in this emerging industry not only because of our unique environment, but also because we are educating and training the aviation workforce of the future.
Flirteyis pioneering UAV delivery to make receiving packages as simple and as easy as possible, where customers no longer have to wait at home all hours for a delivery, or stand in line at the post office to pick up parcels.Flirteys vision is to provide drone delivery as a service, with its fleet of drones making autonomous deliveries directly to your location. Initially, Flirtey drones will trial deliveries over sparsely populated areas and within line of sight for deliveries that customers want within thirty minutes.
Although Amazon has begun lobbying the Federal Aviation Administration to speed up its approval of the usage of drones for commercial usage, it will likely be a few more years until it really happens. Being in Nevada, Flirtey is well positioned when it does. Until then, Flirtey is taking advantage of New Zealands more liberal UAV regulatory stance. The country has launched Airshare, a hub for UAV information, which will allow commercial operators to log their flights to ensure maximum safety. Flirtey will be among the first to participate in Airshare before it goes live later this year. Flirtey has also started lining up customers including urgent parcels, fast food, online retail, and medical deliveries in New Zealand and is looking for more partners. According toFlirtey, this marks the first use of fully automatedcommercial drones for package delivery in the world.
Deliveries viaFlirteycan be made in as little as two or three minutes, compared to two or three days for traditional shippingmethods. Upon arrival at an outdoor delivery destination,Flirteys drones hover and lower the parcel through a custom deliverymechanism that is attached to a retractable cord. Each drones real-time GPS location can be tracked via theFlirteysmartphone app. Currently Flirtey can carry up to 2kg for 10km, but with more time and investment, Flirtey looks to significantly increase the range and payload capacity.
Naturally, safety is a key concern for Flirtey. To prevent the dangerous scenario of a drone dropping from the sky, Flirteys drone is a hexa-copter that can continue to fly even when one rotor fails. They are also heavily investing in a redundant power supply.
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Famed futurist and physicist Michio Kaku has said that America has a secret weapon.
That secret weapon is the H-1B, Kaku said, Without the H-1B the scientific establishment of this country would collapse! Forget about Google. Forget about Silicon Valley, there would be no Silicon Valley without the H-1B.
So what exactly are H-1B visas? Theyre visas for highly skilled, foreign born workers. And theyre hard to get. Companies looking for these employees snatch them up fast in October, it took less than a week for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to hit the cap of 65,000 for 2015.
Its a talent war, says Shams Juma. Hes CEO of a Dallas business consulting startup called Quantifye.
Its very difficult for us to find good talent, and in house.
Juma shared his struggle with a group of startup enthusiasts a few weeks ago at an event put on by local startup group LaunchDFW and the national lobby group FWD.us. FWD.us has been called the Zuckerberg PAC, for its Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
Not everyone searching for an H-1B visa wants to work in IT for Google, Facebook, or a consulting firm. Adrian Avendano wants to work at his own company, but its not that easy.
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Geologist, Historian, Humorist, Futurist | Richard Gibson | TEDxButtePublicLibrary
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Futurist Series: Salim Ismail, director of Singularity University
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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) September 04, 2014
GameStop Corp, a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest multichannel video game retailers in the world, and on Thursday, September 4th they will be hosting their Executive Summit featuring Futurist Jack Uldrich as a keynote speaker.
GameStop's entire network of retail stores and family of brands are spread over 6,650 company operated store locations, which are placed in 15 countries in the world. So obviously they are committed to future-proofing themselves when it comes to the future of gaming. Uldrich, as a futurist, best selling author and international speaker aims to deliver insightful information on how to prepare for that future.
Uldrich says, "It is too soon to know whether all the latest and greatest technologies will work as promised but its not too soon for financial planners, healthcare professionals and environmentalists along with countless other industry professionals, especially those in the gaming industry, to begin exploring how augmented reality tools can be used to help their clients and customers achieved their stated goals."
His talk, "Business as Unusual: How to Future-Proof Your Business" is custom designed for GamesStop's Executives who will be making key decisions in the coming years on the industry's future. Combining predictions, his business acumen, tangible examples, and his key principle of unlearning, Uldrich intends to arm the GameStop executives with all the power they need in order to continue their tremendous success. Lending even more credence to GameStop's motto of "Power to the Players."
Jack Uldrich, in addition to speaking on future trends, emerging technologies, innovation, change management and leadership, is also a leading expert on assisting businesses adapt during times of transition. He has served as an advisor to Fortune 1000 companies and is noted for his ability to deliver provocative, new perspectives on competitive advantage, organizational change and transformational leadership.
Highly regarded for his unique ability to present complex information in an entertaining, understandable and digestible manner that stays with his audiences long afterwards, Uldrich has spoken to hundreds of businesses and organizations, including the American Medical Association, Fiatech, FS Systems, Cisco, and United Healthcare, along with hundreds of other clients in both the corporate and non profit sectors all over the world.
Following his keynote for GameStop, and throughout the month of September, Uldrich will be speaking in Vancouver at the Western Energy Institute Annual Meeting, AgBank's District CFO Meeting in Minneapolis, the PMMI in Chicago, the CPSU Society in Anaheim, The National Council for Continuing Education & Training in Denver and the Textile Rental Services Association in Las Vegas, NV.
Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.
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New York, NY (PRWEB) September 04, 2014
Jack Uldrich, global futurist and best-selling author of "Foresight 20/20" will be presenting seven keynote speeches nationally and internationally throughout the month of September.
Uldrich is a renowned business trend expert and the author of eleven books, including: "The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology will Change the Future of Your Business" and "Jump the Curve: 50 Strategies to Help Your Company Stay Ahead of Technology." A former naval intelligence officer and Defense Department official, Uldrich also served as the Director of the Minnesota Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning under Governor Jesse Ventura.
His schedule for speaking during the month of September is currently as follows:
Sept. 4: GameStop Executive Summit, Southlake, TX
Sept. 8: Western Energy Institute Annual Meeting, Kelowna, British Columbia
Sep. 16: AgBank District CFO Meeting, Minneapolis, MN
Sep. 17: Packaging Machine Manufacturers Institute (PMMI), Chicago, IL
Sep. 21: CPSU Society, Anaheim, CA
Sep. 29: The National Council for Continuing Education & Training, Denver, CO
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Future of business, technology, app economy. Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard at CAExpoAU
This is a video of my keynote at CA Technologies #39; 2014 Expo in Sydney, Australia, see http://www.ca.com/au/lpg/ca-expo-2014-australia.aspx for more details and http://gerd.fm/CAExpoAUS for...
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Technology illusion specialist Adam Trent is in New Zealand as part of The Illusionists 2.0 show and 3 News was invited to sit down with him and discuss magic.
Adam Trent's role in The Illusionists is as The Futurist.
"I'm trying to present magic in a way that I believe has not been seen before and the way it will be in the future," says Trent.
"Incorporating technology is a very big part of my show, I think the future of magic does lie in incorporating technological aspects. I have giant LED screens, I jump inside them, I smash into them, I clone myself on stage, I teleport across the stage. There's a bit of everything."
Check out a taste of The Futurist here.
"You're seeing thousands of faces, hearing gasps, hearing laughter and applause - that feeling as a magician is addictive," says Trent.
"It's like a comedian how they have a strive for laughter, for a magician you want to hear people gasp and see that 'oh!' expression on their faces. It's an amazing feeling."
More information on Trent is available on his official website and more information on The Illusionists 2.0 is available on the Auckland Live website.
Watch my video interview with Trent - and a couple of his tricks.
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Our robotic future, so full of promise, could be our undoing. So says futurist and CEO of Poikos, Nell Watson, who recently spoke at The Conference in Sweden about all things robots. The issue lies in artificial intelligence and a robot's acquisition of knowledge, and the lack of understanding about ethics that are present in both.
Watson talks about the nature of intelligence as it relates to robotics, and goes on to describe ways they've already been implemented into our lives -- as well as ways they will start replacing so-called menial jobs in the near future. Artificial intelligence will eventually provide robots with a sense of intuition, and even, she says, with a degree of self-awareness.
Jobs with emotional components will be "safe for now, but not forever" -- nursing is used as one example. Watson says robots will one day be better at understanding humans than humans themselves, however, and that will present some unique challenges. She goes on to discuss things like "triggers" and how robots are better at understanding them than humans, in the sense that robots can make the pragmatic choice whereas humans are influenced by their emotional components.
This all leads into a bigger issue, one that has been at the heart of ethical discussions for decades: "When we start to see super-intelligent artificial intelligences, are they going to be friendly?"
Yes, if we make them that way, but says Watson, even if robots are friendly, it won't be enough. Future robots could decide that "the kindest and best thing for humanity is to end us," she warns, leading into a call for the need to make sure robots can understand ethics from a human perspective, not merely from a pragmatic one.
Of course, this isn't the first time we've heard concerns raised about the future of possibly lethal robots. Back in May, for example, an informal UN meeting took place to discuss the topic of autonomous robots capable of killing, and the ethical questions at play. At the heart of that discussion was a similar issue: how much an intelligent robot understands about the nuances of its decisions.
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Futurist warns robots may one day kill us all as an act of kindness
Sheryl Connelly A Ford Futurist Gives Perspectives On The Female Frontier
Sheryl Connelly, Global Trends and Futuring Manager at Ford, explores why women are reaching new levels of achievement, shifts in society and the female frontier. Friendly Ford Geneva Rte...
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