Thomas Frey, Senior Futurist and Keynote Speaker
Thomas Frey is a futurist and keynote speaker who presents his ideas about the future to companies, government officials and others around the globe seeking guidance and insight in a rapidly changing world.
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There are plenty of job siting open despite the less-than-booming U.S. employment market. But there’s a mismatch between the skills that applicants have and the skills required for the careers that are in hot demand. Among employers, 25% reported that they had open positions in science and engineering that were hard to fill, and 18% said they were struggling to fill jobs in computer programming and information technology (IT), according to a 2011 report by McKinsey & Co. Looking ahead, employers could face a shortage of 85 million high- and medium-skilled workers worldwide by 2020.
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2013 will see countless technological advancements, some of these will happen in education. Here’s a look at some of Edudemic.com’s ideas of what may happen in education in the next year. (Infographic)
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Thatgamecompany’s PlayStation 3 exclusive game, Journey.
Video games are the most interactive form of entertainment we have but they have been slow to achieve the kind of experiential status that is often associated with art, music, literature, and film. Last year there were many titles released that challenged this notion. Among them was Thatgamecompany’s PlayStation3 exclusive, Journey, which has received heaps of praise and made many video game enthusiasts’ Game-of-the-Year lists.
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Broadband connections over 10Mbps dubbed high broadband.
The number of broadband connections over 10 Mbps — dubbed “high broadband,” has grown by 73 percent from the third quarter of 2011 to the third quarter of 2012, according to the latest data from Akamai. The U.S. has also see a 20 percent overall increase in average speed to 7.2 Mbps over the past year, but the number of people who have adopted broadband (measured at anything above 4 Mbps) was 62 percent, which puts the U.S. at No. 12 in the worldwide rankings when it comes to adoption and No. 9 when it comes to average speeds.
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High school graduation rates hit 78.2%.
High school graduation rates have improved to their highest level in nearly 40 years, driven by a surge in the percentage of Hispanic students earning diplomas, a government study released on Tuesday showed.
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When the U.S. Forest Service looked at mortality rates in counties affected by the emerald ash borer, they found increased mortality rates among people.
In June 2002 was when the blight was first detected in the trees in Canton, Michigan. The emerald ash borer had come from overseas and was quickly spreading – a literal bug – across state and national lines to Ohio, Minnesota, and Ontario. It spread to more distant and seemingly random locations as the infested trees were shipped beyond the Midwest.
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The dream Martin Luther King Jr. had for his children was that they would “one day live in a nation where they would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
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Great male crisis
There is a huge debate in western societies regarding what is called “The great male crisis”. The argument is simple: Men are quickly falling behind women, In the western societies that promote gender equality and free education, women are becoming better educated than men and are earning more. Boys aren’t faring as well as girls in school and college education, and this is being reflected in the job market.
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Albert Einstein
Lewis Terman believed that only knowing the IQ of a person could predict their success in life and this potential could be measured since childhood. That is why he sent his colleagues to California schools and gave the children a few IQ tests, identifying 1500 children whose IQs averaged 150 points.
He took for granted that these children were going to make great contributions to their disciplines in the future.
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One of the biggest conspiracy theories of all time is that, in 1969, NASA did not actually land on the moon. Many different breakdowns of the photo and video footage have been used to make this point (think: flag waving, missing stars, etc), leading most conspiracy theorists to argue that the great Stanley Kubrick actually filmed the moon landing in a television studio.
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Business formation at a 30-year low.
There has been a decline in new business formations. The decrease in the number of jobs per new startup are causing innovation stagnation. The reason? Consumer confidence is very low.
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