Colorado Department of Transportation’s “Drive High, Get a DUI” campaign.
Legal sales of recreational marijuana began in Colorado on January 1, 2014. Since then, state agencies have made a big push in regard to so-called stoned driving. Witness the Colorado Department of Transportation’s “Drive High, Get a DUI” campaign, which features a series of public-service announcements with a light touch.
Continue reading… “Colorado alcohol DUI arrests at weekend checkpoint led marijuana busts 21 to 1”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Some of us get bitten by the genealogical bug early in life, others a bit later. But there are few of us who haven’t been haunted by the question – where did I come from?
Continue reading… “Launching the Whole Earth Genealogy Project”
Students leave college with an average $29,400 in loans.
The appeal of a $10,000 college degree is impossible to deny. Average tuition for a public university is more than $35,000 for four years. Students leave college with an average $29,400 in loans. Who wouldn’t get behind an effort to offer bachelor’s degrees that won’t shackle young people to debt for decades after they graduate?
Continue reading… “The new $10,000 college degree has everyone talking”
39% of employers dig into candidates on social sites.
Should employers be looking into how people live their lives through social media? It’s becoming an increasingly important question. The number of people fired over social-media posts is rising, and many employers look closely at a job candidate’s online presence before making a decision.
Continue reading… “Should employers monitor their employees’ social media?”
What makes the cloud so disruptive is that it compels legacy players to change their business models.
In Harvard professor Clayton Christensen’s 1997 management classic The Innovator’s Dilemma
, he coined the term disruptive innovation. The central premise was that a change in technology can completely transform the basic economics of an business.
Continue reading… “The Cloud might be the most disruptive innovation ever”
The college you attend is not the secret of happiness and satisfaction with work and life.
A new Gallup survey of 29,560 college graduates has found that the college they attended didn’t affect how happy they were after graduation, or their subsequent engagement with work.
Continue reading… “Attending a better university doesn’t affect happiness after graduation”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Earth’s appetite for power continues to grow. Since the 1960s, power consumption has quadrupled around the globe, with many countries opting to build large oil and coal plants to meet the demand.
Continue reading… “The Next Great Space Race – Space-Based Power Stations”
Richard Branson
Technology is having a profound impact on so many sectors, creating opportunities, speeding up development and leveling the playing field so that leading companies can no longer take success for granted. It is an incredibly exciting time for innovation across the sector. (Videos)
Continue reading… “Financial services ripe for disruptive innovation”
A young woman celebrates after winning China’s first Miss Plastic Surgery pageant on December 18, 2004 in Beijing, China.
In South Korea, plastic surgery has become so crazy that some surgeons are now issuing out special certificates to prove that patients are who they say they are.
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two
NASA has lost the urgency of the space race years of the 1960’s, but today’s commercial space sector looks to be recapturing some of that fervor. On Friday, May 2nd at New York City’s historic Explorer’s Club the players in America’s private space race were out in force at this event, each one promising major breakthroughs that will arrive within the next year or two.
Continue reading… “Commercial space travel revs up”
Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic and microrobots.
Below are 15 emerging technologies related to agricultural and natural manufacturing under four key areas of accelerating change: Sensors, Food, Automation and Engineering.
Continue reading… “Top 15 emerging agriculture technologies that will change the world”
Find My iPhone has made it fundamentally easier to track down your phone after you’ve misplaced it following a night of responsible drinking. David Pogue, human dad-joke and Yahoo tech guy, even once used it to find his.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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