Futurist Thomas Frey: Did you hear about the spy who was caught stealing huge amounts of data by hiding it in the DNA of his skin? Officials couldn’t find any trace of the information on him so they eventually had to let him go.
Trimming the Fat – Introducing the Lean Micro-College Model for Education
Futurist Thomas Frey: Last year the DaVinci Institute launched a computer programmer training school, DaVinci Coders, and one of the key people we tapped to be one of our world-class instructors was Jason Noble. On Friday I attended a talk given by Jason at the Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference in Boulder, Colorado titled “From Junior Engineer to Productive Engineer.”
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Top 13 Photos of the Week
Bubbles, much like political promises, are only seconds away from being hot air again!
Quote of the Day: “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
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Life as a Teenager in 1994, 2014, and 2034 – What a difference a generation makes! – Part 2
Futurist Thomas Frey: Our teenage years have always been a time of great awkwardness, super hormones, and bad decision-making. But lately these years have moved even further down the path of supreme weirdness.
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We should be able to travel everywhere by “pool!”
Quote of the Day: “You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.” – – Drew Carey
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How Long before a Driverless Car Wins the Indianapolis 500?
Futurist Thomas Frey: In 1997, IBM staged a history-making competition between World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov and their own chess-playing computer, Deep Blue.
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Tapping into the Waterways in the Sky
Futurist Thomas Frey: With all of the water we have in the world, only 2% of it is fresh water. To make matters worse, only one-forth of all fresh water is accessible to humans.
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Life as a Teenager in 1994, 2014, and 2034 – What a difference a generation makes! – Part One
Futurist Thomas Frey: How quickly we forget. Events of 20 years ago seem like a distant memory, but 1994 was the year when Nelson Mandela was elected President of South Africa, O.J. Simpson was arrested for killing his wife, huge massacres were happening in Rwanda and Sarajevo, and China got its first connection to the Internet.
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Testing football helmets, 1912. No idea how they’d know if they found a bad one!
Quote of the Day: “I realize that I’m generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don’t care.” – Dave Barry
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Agriculture the New Game of Drones
Futurist Thomas Frey: A few days ago the people in Deer Trail, Colorado made national news with a proposed ballot initiative to allow hunting licenses to shoot down flying drones.
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Dress for the job that you want, not for the job that you have!
Quote of the Day: “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin
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Search Engines for the Physical World: The Future of Search Technology in an Increasingly Transparent World
Futurist Thomas Frey: Consider the following scenario.
In 2035 a heinous criminal escapes in the city of Dallas, Texas and the local police department acquires a court order to conduct a thorough search of the metro area. Within 15 minutes a fleet of twelve surveillance drones is deployed to begin an ultra high-res flyover.
