Marina Gorbis, author of The Nature Of The Future: Dispatches From The Socialstructed World, argues we are moving away from the depersonalized world of institutional production toward a new economy built on social connections and rewards–a process she calls socialstructing.
Continue reading… “The currency of the future will be your reputation”
Urbee
While major car manufacturers are exploring 3D printing for prototyping car parts, it’s inevitable that a road-worthy 3D printed car is not too far into the future. Thanks to KOR EcoLogic the future of 3D printed cars could arrive soon. KorEcoLogic has teamed with Stratasys’s RedEye On Demand 3D printing business unit to fabricate a lightweight electric car that could take to the streets in about two years.
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Julian Assange’s website WikiLeaks set a ‘new normal’ for investigative journalism in the mainstream press.
You may be sweating a little bit this week if you are a rooked corporate mogul, property tycoon or prominent politician. Your millions of secret tax-evading dollars are safe in offshore accounts for the moment. But now, a lot more people know exactly where your money is and just how much you’ve been hiding.
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When life gives you mud, feel free to get your hands dirty!
Quote of the Week – “That’s it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I’m going to clown college!” – Homer Simpson
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“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it” – Albert Einstein
Futurist Thomas Frey: As a futurist, I’ve always been interested in our relationship with the future. But lately I’ve become obsessed with understanding more about the dividing line between the present and the future.
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Anywhere, anytime on-demand
More than ever today, our mobile devices are becoming human. They are tailored to our lives and empowering us with new opportunities to connect and learn. Here’s a look at a vision of mobile devices in the year 2020.
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Hyundai’s E4U personal mobility vehicle
At the Seoul Motor Show this year, Hyundai, the Korean automaker, unveiled the E4U. The E4U is a personal mobility vehicle that moves around using a rotating semisphere instead of wheels.
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Close your eyes and imagine the future.
YouTube was unthinkable ten years ago, social media didn’t exist, we got our movies on tapes at video stores, cell phones did not have cameras, and so on.
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Would you ever use a meal delivery service?
Are meal delivery services the future of groceries? The sheer volume of venture-backed meal delivery services that have cropped up over the last year can only mean one of two things: Either there is a sudden, massive demand for this service, and it has finally figured out an economically viable model.
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Those who play with matches are likely to get burned!
Quote of the Day: “The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.” – Franklin P. Jones
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Futurist Thomas Frey: A couple years ago I was on a weekend outing in Vail, Colorado and ended up attending a kayaking tournament taking place on the Gore Creek in the heart of town.
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People are really bad at anticipating events that don’t conform to a very narrow idea of what the future will be, which is why we’re often caught off guard by the unexpected. In the recording of an online conversation above with Andrew Zolli, executive director of PopTech and the author of Resilience, they discuss what about our psyches makes future thinking hard, and how we can recognize major changes–before they happen.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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