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.
Continue reading… “Four Key Trends Driving the Future of Patents”
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.
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.
Futurist Thomas Frey: In 2003 the DaVinci Institute produced a landmark event called “The Future of Money Summit” which took place at the Omni Hotel in Broomfield, CO. One of the featured speakers was Bernard Lietaer, chief architect of the Euro.
Continue reading… “Peter Thiel’s Quest for Creating a Viable Global Currency”
Post-employment economy
Will a post-employment economy actually suck or will it wallow in awesomeness? DaVinci Institute founder, Thomas Frey and the Atlantic’s Conor Sen offer two different views on the post-employment economy.
As employees chart their route to the top of the “Conceptual Age”, it’s important to know the skills that companies are looking for.
IBM’s 2010 Global CEO Study cited “creativity” as the most important leadership quality for the future when “global knowledge” was once essential for leaders. This is one of many signals that the business world is evolving out of the “Information Age,” where left-brain technical skills, knowledge and expertise were king.
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The more of these robots we have in our homes, the more intelligent they could be.
What does it take for a building to be considered smart? Add some lights that turn themselves off when nobody is around or install an “intelligent” air conditioning system to regulate the ambient temperature and you’re well on your way. But compared to the living buildings proposed by Akira Mita, today’s smart buildings are the architectural equivalent of single-celled organisms.
Continue reading… “Swarms of robots could bring buildings to life”
A smart-phone add-on enables at-home diagnosis of ear infections.
There is a post on The Health Care Blog written by Eric Topol where he looks to a future enabled by emerging technology: “Just as the little mobile wireless devices radically transformed our day-to-day lives, so will such devices have a seismic impact on the future of health care. It’s already taking off at a pace that parallels the explosion of another unanticipated digital force — social networks.
Continue reading… “The obstacles faced by transformative technologies in medicine”
Experts talk about the future of communication.
Communication plays a role in all information exchanged among living species. Even plants and fungi communicate with each other.
But what sets us humans apart from other living species? It is the speed at which our means of communication develops and innovates. Technology has been helping us to communicate easier, faster and more often. We’re now at a point where we’re “always on” and panic sets in when we temporarily lose the ability to communicate – for example when we lose the data connection our mobile phone.
Futurist Thomas Frey: In 2004, when Chris Anderson released “The Long Tail,” the world was suddenly awakened to the potential for niche markets that appeal to an increasingly diverse consumer marketplace.
Continue reading… “Workerless Businesses: An Explosive New Trend”