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Pasarea Colibri - Futurist / Vis de Primavara (USA 1998)
25 aprilie 1998 Polo Alto , CA , 1998.

By: Mircea Vintila

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The metaphor is the Wright Brothers, not the Indianapolis 500, says Ian Morrison. Lets just get this sucker up in the air before we declare that flying is a bad idea.

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The metaphor is the Wright Brothers, not the Indianapolis 500, says Ian Morrison. Lets just get this sucker up in the air before we declare that flying is a bad idea. (Photo credit: ianmorrison.com)

Ian Morrison is a health care futurist.

Companies, trade groups and nonprofits call on him to speak about trends in health care and offer prognostications of what the future brings. Ive heard him speak a few times and his knowledge and sense of humor drew me in right away.

Last Friday, I tweeted a story written by Anna Gorman and Julie Appleby, friends at Kaiser Health News, about hundreds of thousands of consumers receiving cancellation notices from their insurance companies on account of the Affordable Care Act.

I was surprised to learn that Morrison was one of them.

I emailed him to find out more. This is what he told me: Until 2011, Morrison paid for his health coverage from a company on whose board of directors he served. The company was sold and he was insured through COBRA until this March. As he tells it, Blue Shield of California didnt want a badly behaved 60 year old Scotsman, so he got coverage through a preferred-provider organization offered by the insurance company Health Net through a Farm Bureau program.

No kidding, he says, hes no farmer.

Two weeks ago, he said he received a letter canceling that plan. He subsequently applied for coveragenot through Covered California, the states new health insurance marketplace, but directly through Blue Shield. Because of the Affordable Care Acts ban on discriminating based on pre-existing conditions, the insurer must take him.

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Is Healthcare.gov the Future? We Ask a Health Futurist

Tallahassee, FL (PRWEB) October 18, 2013

Thought-provoking keynote speaker, education futurist and author, Simon Anderson has been selected to deliver two keynote sessions later this month, one in the U.S. and one in Austria. On October 22, 2013, Anderson will keynote the Telekom Austria Groups Future of Learning event in Vienna, Austria where hell discussing new technologies and trends that are transforming education and how corporate universities can use this to better position themselves for an uncertain future. The following week, Anderson will be speaking about key education and future of work trends with members of the Minnesota Community Education Association in Minneapolis, MN on October 30.

The presentations, drawing partially from Andersons recent book "Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow" (co-authored with globally acclaimed futurist Jack Uldrich) will discuss trends and technologies that are impacting the future of education, including MOOCs, Adaptive Learning Platforms, and Mobile 3.0 devices that take learning outside the four walls of the classroom. He will also discuss the future of work, automation, and entrepreneurship trends in a fast-changing world.

In the past year, Anderson has addressed businesses and other organizations around the country including AT&T, Dakota Wesleyan University in South Dakota, GAI Consultants in Orlano, FL, Central Coast Business Symposium in Arroyo Grande, CA, and TalTechs TechExpo 2013 in Tallahassee, FL. His work was recently featured on the World Future Societys monthly newsletter and on their site, wfs.org.

Parties interested in learning more about Simon Anderson, his book, his blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website at: http://www.futur1st.com. Media wishing to know more about these or other events or interviewing Simon Anderson can contact him directly at 850-321-9472 or simon.anderson(at)futur1st(dot)com.

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Futurist and Author Simon Anderson to Keynote Two Education Events in October

Will.i.am is a science geek at heart. The man who has made his millions off producing funktastic beats for his group The Black Eyed Peas and clocking in studio time with everyone from Chris Brown to Britney Spears, is also a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Now he's taking his love of all things tech and sci-fi to the pages of a new graphic novel titled Wizards & Robots alongside futurist Brian David Johnson, who he met during an Intel interview. The project, which launched at Comic Con in New York, will start as a novel and then be released as a web series scored by Will and delves into the world of the future.

The B.E.P. beatsmith also recalls how changing his squad up shifted his interests.

"I used to see Puffy and Jay walk into a club, and they would be hangin' out with Jacob the Jeweler, like 'wow, that's dope!' I wanna hang out with the geeks," Will tells VIBE. "I wanna hang out with the scientists and walk into the room with the most smartest geeks like bam! We about to change the world. I wanna hang out with a different crew of folks to have a different mindset on how they see the world. They don't run from problems. They run at them to solve them."

Check out the full interview where the two also reveal their favorite childhood wizards and robots, and why Will considers him and Johnson the "Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons" of the sci-fi world, above.Adelle Platon (@adelleplaton)

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Datawars and the future of Advertising: Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard at Guardian Ad Summit (2)
EDITED version (without Guardian intro jingle). Thanks to TheGuardian for making this available via http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/video/2013/oct/0...

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Looking backwards from the Future: Futurist Gerd Leonhard Presentation at Pathways 2013
This is the complete video of my talk at the White Bull Summit / Pathways 2013 event in Barcelona, on October 9, 2013, see http://whitebull.com/latest/pathwa...

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DETROIT (WWJ) Former Michigan Gov. John Engler and noted futurist Daniel Burrus will provide the keynote speeches at Business Leaders for Michigans 2013 CEO Summit, set for Wednesday, Oct. 30 at the Westin Book Cadillac in Detroit.

BLM is the statewide CEO organization that succeeded Detroit Renaissance.

Engler is now president of the national CEO group Business Roundtable.

Burrus is the author of Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible, and is a contributing writer on innovation and change for CNBC, Huffington Post and others. For the Michigan CEO Summit, Burrus share strategies for seeing hidden opportunities and creatively solving problems on the horizon.

The theme of the 2013 Michigan CEO Summit is Putting Michigan in the Winners Circle. This is the second annual Michigan CEO Summit presented by Business Leaders for Michigan.

In addition, attendees will get a preview of the 2013 Economic Competitiveness Benchmarking Report and hear how Michigan stacks up to its competitors national and globally.

Other speakers are to include Walbridge chairman and CEO John Rakolta Jr., Haworth Inc. chairman emeritus Richard Haworth, Meijer Inc. co-chairman and CEO Hank Meijer, La-Z;-Boy Inc. chairman, president and CEO Kurt Darrow, Two Men And A Truck International Inc. CEO Brig Sorber, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan president and CEO Daniel Loepp, Steelcase president and CEO James Hackett, Empowerment Plan founder and CEO Veronika Scott, Duo Security CEO Dug Song, Armune BioScience Inc. president and CEO Eli Thomssen, FirstMerit Michigan chairman and CEO Sandra Pierce, PVS Chemicals Inc. president and CEO James Nicholson, and BLM president and CEO Doug Rothwell.

The event will run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost to attend is $125, which includes breakfast and lunch.

For additional speaker information, the full agenda and registration, visit http://www.businessleadersformichigan.com/events/.

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Marcus Lloyd futurist
Marcus Lloyd from Te Runanga o Ngati Porou presents at the 2013 Tairawhiti TechXpo.

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The Futurist (RDJ #39;s Acoustic Cover)
I try but this is not perfect, I love this song and I hope Robert forgive me for this cover!

By: Thais Etienne

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The Real Blade Runner: A Conversation with Futurist Syd Mead - Autoline This Week 1732
He started out drawing cars and became a Hollywood sensation. Syd Mead, the inspiration behind the futurist world of the film "Blade Runner" as well as many ...

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