Monthly Archives: January 2013

Dixon #39;s Violin at Extreme Futurist Festival @ The Vortex Immersion Dome Los Angeles, CA

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SRL Setup at the Extreme Futurist Festival @ The Vortex Immersion Dome Los Angeles CA
Survival Research Labs Los Angeles performance Dec 2012

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The Futurist: Top tech trends for 2013
The Consumer Electronics Show is in full swing. Ken Colburn from the Data Doctors shares the top tech trends for 2013 and beyond

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Digital Media Strategist Carlo Donzella and Futurist Gerd Leonhard talk about Smart Cities (MotM3)
This is the 3rd pilot for my new web-tv show called Meetings of the Mind (MotM), soon to be available at http://www.meetingsofthemind.tv). In this episode I talk to Carlo Donzella, in Rome / Italy see twitter.com As an advisor to the Lazio Region of Rome, Carlo has recently been involved in the Futouring.it project which has created 6 world-class digital media experiences for 6 world-heritage sites within the Lazio region. Carlo also teaches the "Brave New Media World" course at the Master in Development, Innovation and Change (MiDIC) of the University of Bologna (Italy) and at the PopAkademie of the University of Mannheim (Germany). A reviewer for dozens of international projects, he has covered various executive and consulting roles with many public agencies and private enterprises. We discuss Carlo #39;s work in digital, smart cities, and ponder what the future may hold for cities that use social local mobile video and cloud applications to engage with their visitors, citizens and fans. This is a wide-ranging discussion that covers a ton of stuff - hope you like it. Audio track will go up on http://www.futuretalks.com soon, as well! Please note: You can now download most of my videos by simply subscribing to this iTunes video feed (via Blip.tv) gerd.fm *** audio-only versions are now available here: gerd.fm or on the web at http://www.futuretalks.com My vimeo channel is here vimeo.com Enjoy! Gerd Leonhard Futurist, Author and Keynote Speaker Basel / Switzerland http://www.gerdfuturist.com CEO www ...

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Futurist Speaker Scott Steinberg: Designing for Connected Devices
Futurist speaker Scott Steinberg (www.AKeynoteSpeaker.com) speaks to Billboard magazine readers at CES 2013 about how to design Internet connected (aka "smart") apps, entertainment and high-tech devices or gadgets to meet changing consumer needs and consumption habits.

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If you're a futurist, this is your time of year. David Houle, described as "America's leading futurist" on the cover of his new book, "Entering the Shift Age," has plenty to say about what's coming in 2013 and beyond.

"I look at 2010 to 2020 as the transformation decade. Most of your institutions will change in character and form," said Houle, speaking from his office in Chicago.

"This is the decade when legacy thinking will fall away at an alarming rate," he said.

"I grew up reading Alvin Toffler, Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller in the 1960s and 1970s. I coined the phrase, the shift age, five years ago," Houle said.

Among the institutions that will shift in this decade will be higher education, he said. "I'm predicting that (higher ed) will be the next big bubble," said Houle, pointing to mounting student debt and the indebtedness of universities.

The futurist said that even a basic thing like the concept of a job is going to change. "The job is a 300-year-old institution that's going away. People will become more like independent contractors," Houle said.

As for 2013, he had some specific predictions. "The Gross Domestic Product in this country will grow between 2 and 3 percent. Unemployment will be stuck around 7 percent. A barrel of oil will be in the $90 to $120 range while natural gas will stay cheap," Houle said.

Reto Gallati, president of Chicago-based Raetia Investments, and author of "Investment Discipline: Making Errors is OK, Repeating Errors is Not OK," offered his own economic predictions for 2013:

- GDP will grow 2.2 percent.

- Unemployment will improve to 7.3 percent this year.

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Futurist says social institutions are entering the 'shift age'