Futurist Flight Radio #11 Special Easter 2014
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Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) April 22, 2014
April 22-25, the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) 2014 Spring World Conference is taking place at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, NV and trend expert and bestselling author Jack Uldrich will deliver his keynote speech, "The Big AHA: How to Future-Proof Your Business Against Tomorrow's Shift."
Ranked among the most important events of the year, the SIOR World Conferences are for SIOR designees and others involved in the sale or lease of commercial real estate. The group meets biannually to increase their professionalism, enhance their business networks, and enhance their knowledge of the latest trends with sophisticated educational programming like Uldrich's keynote.
Drawing on highlights from his upcoming book: "Business as Unusual: How to Future-Proof Your Business Against Tomorrow's Trends, Today," Uldrich will share insights on the Internet of things, Big Data, and the Big AHA with SIOR audience members. For more on Uldrich's thoughts on the Big AHA, read his latest article here.
An internationally respected expert on future trends, strategic planning, leadership and unlearning, Uldrich has advised hundreds of professional, business, and governmental organizations and has served as a commentator on CNN, CNBC, NPR, and James Woods' "Futurescape."
Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website at: http://www.jumpthecurve.net.
Media wishing to know more about the event or interviewing Jack can contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.
Jack Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, technology forecaster, best-selling author, editor of the monthly newsletter, The Exponential Executive, and host of the award-winning website, http://www.jumpthecurve.net.
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FUTURIST performs "Blacksheep Army" LIVE at Galaxy Smith Studios in Brooklyn, NY. engineered by Dave Brandwein film by Dani Barbieri.
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As part of Tribeca Film Festival's "Future of Film" series, tomorrow, April 22, filmmaker and futurist Jason Silva (dubbed the "Timothy Leary of the Viral Video Age" by The Atlantic) will muse about how humans are hardwired for story and cinema.
"Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else."
Despite technology, isn't it still about storytelling?
Diana Slattery writes thatImmersionis a "necessary precursor for any kind of interpersonal persuasion or transformation to occur".. Janet Murray writes that we "long to be immersed" and that we "actively metabolize belief in story"... because we are effectively narrative beings.
I'm fascinated by the liminal spaces we enter when we are absorbed by cinema: that magical borderland between dreams and reality, the space of archetype, of myth, of madness and ecstasy, the landscape of the imagination, freed from the constraints of time/space/ distance.
Art is the lie that reveals the truth, as they say. During the talk, I will talk about the lust for immersion we have, the moment we forget ourselves and become part of the movie consciousness and we leave our own consciousness behind.
We want to hold up a mirror to ourselves. Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else. A film allows us to enter the world of somebody else and the mind of another. I'm such a fan of that power that cinema has. I just find it endlessly inspiring.
My short films, which I call "Shots of Awe" are trailers for the mind-- they explore these topics and many more.
Watch a couple of Silva's short films below and find out more about Silva here.
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Futurist Flight Radio #9
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Holistic and Sacred Spaces: Phillip Daffara at TEDxNoosa 2014
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Last month we told you about 20 terms every self-respecting futurist should know, but now it's time to turn our attention to the opposite. Here are 10 pseudofuturist catchphrases and concepts that need to be eliminated from your vocabulary.
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Some futurists toss this word around in a way that's not too far removed from its religious roots. The hope is that our technologies can help us experience our existence beyond normal or physical bounds. Now, it very well may be true that we'll eventually learn how to emulate brains in a computer, but it's an open question as to whether or not we'll be able to transfer consciousness itself. In other words, the future may not for us it'll be for our copies. So it's doubtful any biological being will ever literally experience the process of transcension (just the illusion of it).
What's more, life in a "transcendent" digitized realm, while full of incredible potential, will be no walk in the park; full release, or transcendence, is not likely an achievable goal. Emulated minds, or ems, will be prone to hacking, deletion, unauthorized copying, and subsistence wages. Indeed, a so-called uploaded mind may be free from its corporeal form, but it won't be free from economic and physical realities, including the safety and reliability of the supercomputer running the ems, and the costs involved in procuring sufficient processing power and storage space.
Vernor Vinge co-opted this term from cosmology as a way to describe a blind spot in our predictive thinking, or more specifically our inability to predict what will happen after the advent of greater-than-human machine intelligence. But since that time, the Technological Singularity has degenerated to a term void of any true meaning.
In addition to its quasi-religious connotations, it has become a veritable Rorschach Test for futurists. The Singularity has been used to describe accelerating change or a future time when progress in technology occurs almost instantly. It has also be used to describe humanity's transition into a posthuman condition, mind uploads, and the advent of a utopian era. Because of all the baggage this term has accumulated, and because the peril that awaits us coming clearer into focus (e.g. the Intelligence Explosion), it's a term that needs to be put to bed, replaced by more substantive and unambiguous hypotheses.
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I wholeheartedly agree that we should use technology to build the kind of future we want for ourselves and our descendants. Absolutely. But it's important for us to acknowledge the challenges we're sure to face in trying to do so and the unintended consequences of our efforts.
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Futurist Flight Radio #8
We #39;re back with a new Radio Show, and we #39;re kicking off with an anthem that changed the world, Martin Garrix #39;s Animals. Troughout this week #39;s work, we #39;re sli...
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Winning the Hearts and Minds of Tomorrow #39;s Indian Customers - Futurist Anders Sorman-Nilsson
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Future Trendspots: From the Streets of India (Part 1) Futurist Anders Sorman-Nilsson
In this video from Agri, India, futurist and trendspotter Anders Sorman-Nilsson observes the changing consumer technology landscape in India, and the reflect...
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Why does it seemthat American society is in decline, that fairness and decorum are receding, that socialism and tyranny are becoming malignant despite the majority of the public being averse to such philosophies, yet the true root cause seems elusive? What if everything from unsustainable health care and social security costs, to stagnant wages and rising crime, tocrumbling infrastructure and metastasizing socialism, to the economic decline of major US cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore, could all be traced to a common origin that is extremely pervasive yet is all but absent from the national dialog, indeed from the dialog of the entire Western world?
Today, on the first day of the new decade of '201x' years, I am going to tell you why that is. I am herebytriggering the national dialog on what the foremost challenge for the United States will be in this decade, which is the ultimate root cause of most of the other problems we appear to be struggling with. What you are about to read isthe equivalent of someonein 1997 describing theexpected forces governing the War on Terror from 2001-2009in profound detail.
This is a very long article, the longest ever written on The Futurist.As it is a guide to the next decade of social, political, and sexual strife, it is not meant to be read in one shot but rather digested slowly over an extended period, with all supporting links read as well. As the months and years of this decade progress, this article will seem all the more prophetic.
Executive Summary : The Western World has quietly become a civilization that undervalues men and overvalues women,where the stateforcibly transfers resources from men to women creating various perverse incentives for otherwise good women to conduct great evil against men and children, and where male nature is vilified but female nature is celebrated. This isunfair to both genders, and is a recipe for a rapid civilizational decline and displacement, the costs of which will ultimately be borne by a subsequent generation of innocent women, rather than men, as soon as 2020.
The Cultural Thesis
The Myth of Female Oppression : All of us have been taught how women have supposedly been oppressed throughout human existence, and that this was pervasive, systematic, and endorsed by ordinary men who presumably had it much better than women. In reality, this narrative is entirely fabricated. The average man was forced to risk death on the battlefield, at sea, or in mines, while most women stayed indoors tending to children and household duties. Male life expectancy was always significantly lower than that of females, and still is.
Warfare has been a near constant feature of human society before the modern era, and whenever two tribes or kingdoms went to war with each other, the losing side saw many of its fighting-age men exterminated, while the women were assimilated into the invading society. Now, becoming a concubine or a housekeeper is an unfortunate fate, but not nearly as bad as being slaughtered in battle as the men were. To anyone who disagrees, would you like for the men and women to trade outcomes?
Most of this narrative stems from 'feminists' comparing the plight of average women to the topmost men (the monarch and other aristocrats), rather than to the average man. This practice is known as apex fallacy, and whether accidental or deliberate, entirely misrepresents reality. To approximate the conditions of the average woman to the average man (the key word being 'average') in the Western world of a century ago, simply observe the lives of the poorest peasants in poor countries today. Both men and women have to perform tedious work, have insufficient food and clothing, and limited opportunities for upliftment.
As far as selective anecdotes like voting rights go, in the vast majority of cases, men could not vote either. In fact, if one compares every nation state from every century, virtually all of them extended exactly the same voting rights (or lack thereof) to men and women. Even today, out of 200 sovereign states, there are exactly zero that have a different class of voting rights to men and women. Any claim that women were being denied rights than men were given in even 0.1% of historical instances, falls flat.
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Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) April 15, 2014
Ready. Set. Catalyst! On April 17th global futurist Jack Uldrich will keynote the 2014 Catalyst Corporate Federal Credit Union Annual Meeting and Accelerating Success Conference. The conference will take place at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, Nevada. The purpose of the meeting is to "review Catalyst Corporates activities and financial performance in 2013 and to outline plans for 2014."
As the keynote speaker, Uldrich aims to help Catalyst understand how technological trends, business forces and social media are merging to create fresh and innovative opportunities in the credit union industry. His keynote for Catalyst, "Foresight 2020" will address the cutting edge trends in technology in the credit union industry, including advances in mobile payments, "Big Data," peer-to-peer lending, wearable technology, artificial intelligence and collaborative consumption.
Honing in on relevant trends, Uldrich is tremendously adept at custom designing his message to each individual audience. He also offers powerful, constructive guidance for leveraging rapid technology-driven change into a competitive advantage. His captivating style blended with humor and anecdotes, along with timely and provocative insights motivate audiences like Catalyst to embrace the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead.
The following is an excerpt from Uldrich's most recent book, "20/20 Foresight: A Futurist Explores the Transformational Trends of Tomorrow," upon which his keynote is based. This chapter covers how unexpected events and unknown unknowns might adversely affect the future in the world of finance.
Other of Uldrichs bestselling and award-winning books include, Green Investing: A Guide to Making Money through Environment-Friendly Stocks; Unlearning 101: 101 Lessons in Thinking Inside-Out the Box, Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future; The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business; and Jump the Curve: 50 Essential Strategies to Help Your Company Stay Ahead of Emerging Technologies.
Celebrated as a national and international speaker and scholar, Uldrichs most recent keynotes have been delivered to the Fiatech, the 2014 ATEA Conference, the American Medical Association, TEXPERS, the Idaho Technology Council, Wells Fargo, the Allan P. Kirby Lecture Series at Wilkes University and The Million Dollar Round Table in Kuala Lumpur.
Some of Uldrichs other clients include General Electric, IBM, Cisco, United Healthcare, PepsiCo, Verizon Wireless, General Mills, the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Pfizer, Healthcare Association of New York, Southern Company, St. Jude Medical, Dressbarn, AG Schering, Imation, Lockheed Martin, Fairview Hospitals, Touchstone Energy, The Insurance Service Organization.
Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his School of Unlearning website. Media wishing to know more about either the event or interviewing Jack can contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.
Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, best-selling author, editor of the monthly newsletter, The Exponential Executive, and host of the award-winning website, http://www.jumpthecurve.net.
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Futurists are those who attempt to predict and analyze the future. There are professional futurists, who do futurism for a living, as well as amateur futurists, who look at the future in their particular area of interest. The arguments for modern futurism emerged in the mid-40s, pioneered by the German Ossip K. Flechtheim, who said that even if we can determine the most basic statistical trends and plot them a couple decades in advance, we'd be generating valuable information for society to use. Many large organizations now employ futurists and scenario planners, to help them get an edge on their competition.
The task of the futurist begins with looking at historical data, extracting regularities, and projecting those trends a bit, if only to see what numbers pop out. For example, the human population has doubled roughly every 34 years for the last hundred years or so, and while the rate of doubling has slowed down slightly in recent times, it makes sense to assume that the general trend will continue, if even the doubling time is extended to, say, every 40 years. General and uncontroversial statistical trends like these are the canvas on the futurist paints more speculative projections. Futurists must be careful about any wild assumptions in the basics, lest they incur the ire of those who pay them to make serious prognostications.
After putting together a general idea of the next 5, 10, or 20 years, a futurist will often engage in "scenario building" - formulating concrete scenarios and classifying them on the basis of their likelihood. For example, "probable," "possible," and "wild card" scenarios. These help the company or organization in question choose their actions cleverly in the present so as to give rise to the future of their choice. For example, one might say it is probable that we will do the majority of our shopping online in 20 years, but improbable that the majority of work will be conducted in virtual worlds.
Certain scientists tend to get excited about futurism. As science describes the world around us with more precision and empirical support than the guesses of most laypeople, scientists are frequently part-time futurists. Because many scientists work on tiny pieces of small problems, they like to sketch a look at the bigger picture, and describe to the public how their little corner of research is a small part of a much larger useful effort. For example, a researcher working on a new nanotech film may suggest that his work could one day be used to filter water for children in developing countries. This is a primary example of a futurist, even if the person doesn't call themselves one. Futurists go by many names - but in the end, anyone who looks forward more than about 5 years deserves to be called as such.
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