Information and knowledge are rapidly being rewritten by technology and humans are changing because of it. The torrent of information and knowledge flowing into our mobile devices – and the global network delivering it – is rapidly changing our lives, says Gerd Leonhard.
Continue reading… “Technology and the future of knowledge”
Futurist Thomas Frey: “2014 will be the year the ’quantified self’ goes mainstream.” Those were the words Silicon Valley prodigy Marc Andreessen used in a recent article to describe changes about to happen to American healthcare.
Continue reading… “Eight Reason Why Future Computers will make better Decisions than Doctors”
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One day, Google Glass could enable some pretty incredible augmented reality apps. Its camera might recognize a person’s face, then scour the Internet for information about him or her, beaming that back to you in real time. It’s neat stuff for sure, but as this concept demo from Israeli software developer Infinity AR shows us (completely unintentionally): automatically digging up too much information about someone else can be downright creepy.
Continue reading… “How app designers can make the future of dating less creepy”
Futurist Thomas Frey published 33 Dramatic Predictions of things that he projects may occur before the year 2030. Here are a few of these predictions that could have some immediate impact on the field of human resources.
Continue reading… “Top 5 dramatic predictions for HR”
The entire demise of Blu-rays and DVDs are due to one company.
Innovation in the tech industry is moving fast. We can’t know all of the different technologies that will fill our lives in five years. We can however, predict what tech products won’t last. It’s clear the technology landscape will look dramatically different in the near future.
Continue reading… “Top 5 tech products that will be dead in 5 years”
Maybe pigs can fly!
Quote of the Week: “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
Continue reading… “Top 14 Photos of the Week”
Futurist Thomas Frey: 2013 has been a year of considerable change for both me and the rest of our team at the DaVinci Institute. While most of what you see here on Futurist Speaker is about my research, thinking, and philosophy on the future, I thought this might be a good time to step back and fill you in on the people behind everything you’re reading.
Continue reading… “Top 13 ‘Futurist Speaker’ Columns in 2013”
Over the past 13 years, Impact Lab has become one of the world’s most influential compendiums of future trends, emerging technology, and futurist thinking. And we throw in a few other articles that don’t fall into these categories but catch our attention anyway.
Continue reading… “Top 13 ‘Impact Lab’ Stories of 2013”
Welcome to Doha at its 21st century ‘knowledge economy’ zenith.
By 2050 what will Qatar look like? A semi-fictional vision presented by Barry Mansfield shows likely changes in cultural and economic life brought about by a ‘rise of the machines’ – and how Qataris may blend the traditional and high technology in a way that is agreeable to them.
Continue reading… “What Qatar will look like in 2050”
Futurist Thomas Frey: When Thomas Edison died he left a gaping hole. He was credited with inventing everything from the electric light bulb, to the phonograph, to the movie projector, to the stock ticker, to the motion picture camera, to the entire movie industry.
Continue reading… “Competing for the Title – World’s Chief Innovator”
Millennials will turn work into a game instead of a chore.
Over the next 10 years, millennials are going to make major shifts in corporations and most people aren’t ready for the amount of change that’s coming. Millennials will account for 75% of the global workforce by 2025 and by next year, they will account for 36% of the American workforce. At some companies like Accenture and Ernst & Young, they already account for over two thirds of the entire employee base.
Continue reading… “Top 10 ways millennials are creating the future of work”
While a human is picking up the phone, and a human is dialing the phone, it may not be a conversation between two humans.
In the future humans will interact with each other, and machines, and systems that can only properly be called cyborg. People are fielding millions of calls from bright, energetic telemarketers, but what they don’t know is that they’re talking to machines… Sort of. (Video)
Continue reading… “The cyborg future of telemarketing”
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