Futurist Thomas Frey: Fifteen years ago in an article I wrote for The Futurist Magazine, I made the prediction that once we had talking computers, we would soon have downloadable personalities to create a more human-like experience. I went on to suggest that most of us would actually download multiple personalities so we could interact with the right persona at any given moment.
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One of the blast sites on Boylston Street near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon.
There is a lot of restless energy surging through the web.A legion of Internet investigators are scrutinizing every available photo of the Boston Marathon finish line, searching for clues that will help nab a killer. At Reddit, Imgur and a zillion blogs, notes are being shared, theories propounded — and, without question, innocent people are getting slandered.
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An artist’s rendition of a Mars One colony.
Martian colonization non-profit, Mars One, will begin accepting applications in July from people who want to colonize Mars, Space.com reports. The applications must be in video form and applicants have to pay a fee (the company told Space.com that it was to weed out insincere candidates).
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Futurist Thomas Frey: In the late 1980s, I was an engineer working as part of an IBM team to build a mobile satellite command and control center for monitoring missile launches from space. This contract was part of Regan’s “Star Wars” missile defense system.
Continue reading… “Monitoring People from Space: The Good the Bad, and the Ugly”
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.
Continue reading… “Piercing the Field of Knowability”
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.
Continue reading… “How do we get better at imagining the future?”