Futurist Lab: Archive

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Future smart phones will project images on the... →

Future phones… singularitarian: Mobile phones currently on the market are capable of showing high quality images and video, but the phones’ small size sets insurmountable limits on screen size, and thus the viewing experience. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, EpiCrystals Oy and the Aalto University are developing a better laser light source for projectors that will be integrated...

Feb 29th

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Innovation makes companies more profitable →

Future business. This also means companies will eventually hire Chief Thought Innovation Officers or CTIOs… businessdna: via Read it Later

Feb 29th

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Via TheFuturesAgency: Emerging Trends by World... →

Future trends… futuresagency: I’ve summarized a list of emerging tech trends that Andrew Maynard summarized from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies assessment: Informatics for adding value to information [Big Data] Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering Green Revolution 2.0 –…

Feb 29th

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Feb 29th

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The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the... →

Future health… http://helldesign.net, kurzweilai.net Until now. Beyond reading email and surfing the Web, we will soon be checking our vital signs on our phone. We can already continuously monitor our heart rhythm, blood glucose levels, and brain waves while we sleep. Miniature…

Feb 27th

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“Last time I checked, the digital universe was expanding at the rate of 5...”

– The future of big data with quote from George Dyson (via chrbutler)

Feb 27th

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TheFuturesAgency: Mobile Social Networking →

The future of mobile… futuresagency: According to Comscore’s 2012 Mobile Future In Focus report 64.2 million U.S. smartphone users and 48.4 million EU5 smartphone users accessed social networking sites or blogs on their mobile devices at least once in December 2011, with more than half of these mobile social networking users…

Feb 27th

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Feb 27th

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In the future, your life will be an algorithm,... →

Future and innovative thinking from @dominicbasulto via BIG THINK…

Feb 25th

“How do we make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time...”

– Buckminster Fuller

Feb 25th

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Feb 24th

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A Future of ideas instead of things? →

The future of physical media…

Feb 24th

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The Future of Fitness...

Future exercise… vicktoriously: Introducing the new Nike+ Experience: Basketball and Training

Feb 23rd

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“65% of grade school children will end up at a job that has not been invented...”

– Future employment, future job titles, future jobs… US Dept of Labor (via singularitarian)

Feb 23rd

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Future journalism… futuresagency: The Future Of News via Time for Chicago Ideas Week Ayman Mohyeldin, Joe McGinniss, James Warren, Evan Ratliff, Kara Swisher, Richard Stengel Most impressed with Swisher’s recounting of being the first (only, at the time) at the Wall Street Journal, first up in the video. ‘People wanted the news, but they didn’t like the newspaper.’

Feb 23rd

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Feb 23rd

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Is "futurism" the new "green" to marketers?

I’m writing a blog post for a publication and curious to know, is this movement toward “futures” and “trends” the new “green” movement by companies looking to develop products and marketers looking to sell them. Thoughts?

Feb 23rd

Will we ever decode dreams? →

Feb 23rd

The Entrepreneur State: Safety Nets for Startups,... →

The future of capitalism? … “It’s the entrepreneurs, stupid”

Feb 23rd

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"Occupy" named 2011 Word of the Year

Will the term have staying power in the future?… Will collective or entente or collaboration be more popular terms in 2017? futuresagency: “Occupy” Named 2011 Word of the Year ow.ly/9akoH via @VocabularyCom #OWS — #OCCUPYWALLSTREET (@OccupyWallStNYC) February 20, 2012

Feb 22nd

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“In order to solve contemporary business problems, a big data strategy is needed...”

– Future job title - “Chief Data Scientist” What is a Data Scientist? - Forbes (via smartercomputing)

Feb 22nd

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“The Virgin Media Business report also notes that face-to-face meetings with...”

– Future work and employment… 60% of UK Employees Working Remotely Within a Decade (via thenextweb)

Feb 22nd

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Feb 22nd

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BBC launches BBC Future →

Wonderful and timely launch by BBC with BBC Future. Forecasting the news for tomorrow…

Feb 22nd

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Feb 21st

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Feb 21st

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Scientists Turn Stem Cells into PETA-Approved Meat... →

Future food?… [brightcove video=”1463124375001” /] Hamburger meat could be grown in a test tube as soon October. In a bid to protect the environment, Dutch scientists are exploring lab-grown meat options. Fake meat might sound gross, but scientists say an alternative meat is essential. Raising cattle t…

Feb 21st

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What Makes The Most Creative Teams? – Stowe Boyd... →

Based on all of the scientific research as of late, agencies are not set up whatsoever to be innovative or creative. And as long as this remains the case, they won’t be profitable or in existence into 2017 if this trend continues. stoweboyd: I am glad to say that I going to be working with Claude Théoret and the nice folks at Nexalogy Environics over the course of the year. Claude and I...

Feb 20th

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The rise of the new reporter - Dan James via 12... →

futuresagency: NESTA put together 12 predictions for 2012, and one was the rise of the new reporter: the data journalist. Dan James via 12 Predictions For 2012 — NESTA The task of the data journalist is to filter and interpret these huge datasets to make a compelling story. And this is where it gets interesting, because data journalism gives us a new way to make facts compelling. Traditional...

Feb 20th

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Futurist Clothing →

A real clothing company with futurist-themed t-shirts and hoodies.

Feb 19th

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Feb 19th

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Future Job Titles →

Future job titles may include: Earned Media Director replacing Creative Director and Paid Media Execs - As the link suggests they would be in charge of amplification around media in earned channels with less reliance on a paid media or creative team. Chief Futurist replacing Chief Culture Officer - Most companies have neither but it will be important to track where trends are going in the future...

Feb 17th

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“One of the problems with this innovative and cool approach by the Wall Street...”

– Future of copyright… Pinterest: Delightful, Addictive, Theft | The Awl (via thisistheverge)

Feb 17th

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Feb 17th

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Feb 17th

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IPad Killing Printer Use, Paper Sales [Survey] →

Future of paper… infoneer-pulse: If you think about it, printers are probably the worst-designed gadgets in our homes (unless you own the same awful Samsung Behold as I do). But despite the mythical advance of the paperless office, nobody has been able to kill them off. Until now. A new survey says that the iPad has finally doomed the printer, and is even saving trees. The survey,...

Feb 16th

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Future speech therapy… 8bitfuture: Video: Speech reconstructed from brainwaves. Researchers at the University of California have been working to reconstruct speech from brain activity. While only a few sounds and words are audible in the video, it’s amazing to see that they are getting there. Of course this would be great news for people with any form of disability affecting their...

Feb 15th

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Skillshare: The Education Harvest →

Future education… skillshare: We’re witnessing a bottom-up revolution in education: Learners, not institutions, are leading innovation. This is the era of the Education Harvest. Education is changing, and it’s changing fast. Anyone can cull together a personalized educational experience via digital textbooks…

Feb 15th

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Device Instantly Turns You Into A Surgeon →

Future medicine… singularitarian: Let’s say you’re an archaeologist deep in the remote jungles of Chiapas, excavating Mayan artifacts, when one of your colleague’s appendix ruptures. You’re miles away from a hospital. No time for emergency transport. Time to sterilize what knives you have and perform an impromptu appendectomy.

Feb 15th

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