Speaking at “Mobility Day” in Shanghai
Futurist Thomas Frey: Yesterday I had the privilege of speaking at a conference on the “Future of Mobility” in Shanghai, China. The event was produced by the very forward thinking people at Lanxess, a German-based chemical company that broke ground the day before on a new facility to expand its already significant base of operation in Shanghai.
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The New York Public Library recently embarked on a controversial plan to move two to three million books off-site.
The New York Public Library (NYPL) retired its pneumatic-tube system sometime last year. It had been used to request books for more than a century. The New York Public Library opened in 1911 and that pneumatic call system had changed little since then. You still filled out a slip, and you still turned that slip over to a clerk, who would load it into a metal cartridge. The cartridge would be driven by air pressure to a station down in the stacks, where another clerk would retrieve your book, which was then sent back up to the call desk by a dumbwaiter. In recent years, this procedure would take about 20 minutes. In decades past, I’m told, it was closer to five.
Driverless car
Governor Jerry Brown of California will most likely sign off soon on the proposed bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It has been characterized by the Obama administration and its other supporters as an effective way to reduce highway congestion. These costs amount to more than $100 billion annually in wasted time and higher fuel expenses.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: During the late 1990s business and industry began to panic over the issues surrounding Y2K, which later turned out to be mostly manufactured fear.
Future of technology
The power of technology has been shaping our world. Within a generation we’ve seen space stations built, computing speeds quicken exponentially, and the internet boom. In fact, technological advances now happen so rapidly that our current way of life may seem hopelessly outdated within another decade.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: In the late 1980s I was still working at IBM, but had taken on a number of side projects to expand my horizons. One of those projects was working with the City of Denver on the redevelopment of Stapleton Airport.
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The cloud is starting to become the “mainframe” in the sky.
We are seeing the greatest shakeup in the world of computing that has ever taken place. Three kinds of devices defined what computing was all about over a period of about 50 years. We started out with mainframes, moved on to mini-computers and in the early ’80s entered the era of the personal computer.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: In July, David Kappos, Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, announced expansion plans for the USPTO that would involve opening satellite offices in Denver, Dallas, and San Francisco. These coupled with the previously announced office in Detroit would draw on a diverse new talent pool for future examiners.
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While driving we can get connected to the world through the internet.
Everyday the world of automotive technology changes. Companies are designing very advanced in-car technology that needs to be secure but also easily usable to their customers. Now a days big automobile brands introduce the internet facility and secure navigation systems in cars. This is very beneficial to the consumers.
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Drop the trash into a pneumatic tube and the pneumatic garbage removal system sucks it to a central processing facility.
Songdo, South Korea is the city of the future.
When you’re building a new city, there’s plenty of technology and features to consider that either didn’t exist or weren’t practical in the past. These range from in-building technology to the municipal systems, from private perks to public services.
If you had a choice of flying from Boston to San Diego in a plane piloted by a single machine or the combined intelligence of 3,000 people, which would you choose?
Futurist Thomas Frey: People are seriously worried. I’ve been in a number of conversations recently where people are very worried about our coming era of automation where fewer and fewer jobs will be left for people to do.
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