Futurist Thomas Frey: In September 1989, GE Chairman Jack Welch flew to Bangalore, India for a breakfast meeting with an Indian delegation that included Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi. The purpose of his trip was to sell airplane engines and medical equipment to India, but the meeting took an interesting twist along the way.
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Merging man and machine.
Many future followers predict the pace of technological progression in genetics, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence will become so fast that humans will undergo radical evolution by around mid-century. Advances that provide a forever youthful and healthy state of being could be realized.
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It was the final match between good and evil, and unless he pulls a groin muscle,
evil is about to kick the sideburns off his opponent!
Quote of the Day: “It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.” – Douglas Adams
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Futurist Thomas Frey: The first time I rode on a Segway, I was confused. Even though I loved the experience, I couldn’t quite figure out how it would fit into my life. It wasn’t going to replace my car and it certainly wasn’t a substitute for my bicycle, so what exactly was it?
Something tells me this is not a gesture of kindness!
Quote of the Day: “Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
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Futurist Thomas Frey: As a futurist I spend much of my time tracking failure. Why failure? Because they are the unforgiving anchors around which society changes directions.
Continue reading… “The Urgency of Purpose and the Forward Movement of Failure”
What if shadows were inverted?
Quote of the Day: “Some people say that I must be a terrible person, but it’s not true. I have the heart of a young boy in a jar on my desk” – Stephen King
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Hearing aids are for old people. At least that’s what I thought when I was young and invincible attending rock concerts far louder than they should have been.
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Help Wanted: Needed, one exceptionally skilled knife catcher! Those with poor skills
will be considered as long as they’re exceptionally fast healers!
Quote of the Day: “Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.” – Terry Pratchett
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They get shorter and floppier when they’re less excited!
Quote of the Day: “First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.” – Leo Rosenberg
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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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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”
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