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Martin Börjesson (futuramb)
Föredrag , framtidsbaserade workshops och visuella arbetsmetoder för att hjälpa organisationer utveckla bättre, mer kreativa och framsynta strategier för sin verksamhet.
John Smart (ASF - Acceleration Studies Foundation)
The Physics of Performance Curves , an EDU Conference being planned for 2012. - What explains the smoothness and the differential rates of acceleration in so many of our technology performance curves (computing, storage, bandwidth, energy production, etc.) as documented in Performance Curve Databases ? - The most rapidly accelerating performance occurs in technologies where the greatest rates of miniaturization and virtualization are occurring. Why is this fact so little-known?
Mark Vickers (The Reticulum)
Tis the season (or, rather, slightly past it) for all the predictions for the coming year. I’m a sucker for these articles and have collected many of them via my Twitter account ( @TWgy ) in recent weeks. There are so many predictions out there that I’ll break this into two parts, with a bonus section on talent management trends to go for the trifecta. Let’s start with the more multi-disciplinary predictions.
Image: FutureAtlas.com (usable with credit) As the future part owner of $347 billion in nuclear missile submarines , I had to wonder about the implications of this little autonomous underwater drone a science expo last week. The scientist who used it described how it can operate semi-autonomously and carry a variety of sensor packages in its nose. I was left with a simple question: how many $20,000 underwater drones would it take to hunt down $347 billion worth of submarines? With the capabilities such a drone could have in 20 years, I’m guessing that number is an order of magnitude fewer than the 1.7 million such drones you could buy for only $34.7 billion. After all, with Moore’s Law in the drones’ corner, a submarine becomes a larger and larger piece of information to hide.
Josh Calder (Future Atlas)
George Dvorsky (Sentient Developments)
Readers of this blog know that I've started to develop a bit of a fascination with psychopathy . It all got started after attending the Moral Brain conference at NYU last April. The more I look into this subject, the more I understand why so many neuroscientists are making such a big fuss about it. The one statistic that has stuck with me is the observation that 1-2% of the general population is psychopathic. As previously noted , psychopathic traits don't always lead to crime or violence.Dr Graeme Codrington is an expert on the new world of work and the disruptive forces that are shaping it. As an author and researcher, his insights and analysis are sought after by business schools and CEOs around the world, with five degrees, three best selling books and a full-time research team at his company, TomorrowToday, to back it up. As a keynote presenter and facilitator, he uses multimedia, a gently rebuking humour and engaging style to make his insights accessible and engaging to over 100,000 people in 20 countries every year. Graeme Codrington is an expert on the new world of work...
Graeme Codrington (workforcetrends)
Kristin will be attending and livetweeting the Social Media and Online Marketing workshop presented by the Australian Business Arts Foundation on Monday 13th February. The Australian Science Communicators Conference is being held in Sydney from 27-29 February 2012. Kristin is producing a panel on social media and James is producing a panel on video engagement. You can register here. InsideOut will be back for the Adelaide Fringe Festival, at Higher Ground’s Shimmering West location.
Kristin Alford (Bridge8)
Ajit Jaokar (Open Gardens)
As a company, our goal has always been to make a difference. The vision of OpenGardens is a case in point. More recently, I have been thinking of expanding our vision beyond technology for business and I have been working on this concept for some time. This blog is based on a presentation for a new book written by me and my eight year old son Aditya. (Concepts of programming languages for … [Read More...] Note: I follow policy issues at the Policy bloggers network.In a fast moving modern world there is real value in being able to think better about the future and be more open to the possibilities before you. Our key services are keynote presentations for conferences and workshops, specific workshops on future thinking and complexity, and tailored consultancy on strategic thinking and planning using a futures perspective. We apply the processes and techniques of foresight and how to deal with complexity to facilitate your strategic thinking and capacity for decision making in complex and uncertain circumstances so you can:
Paul Higgins (Emergent Futures)
Alvin Toffler
STARTING WITH THEIR GROUND-BREAKING BOOKS FUTURE SHOCK and The Third Wave , Alvin and Heidi Toffler's global bestsellers have helped multi-millions around the world anticipate tomorrow. Focusing on families and finance, media and military, businesses and bureaucracies, the Tofflers prepare us for the sweeping changes rushing toward us all. As Time magazine puts it, they "set the standard by which all subsequent would-be futurists have been measured."
Alvin Toffler - Wikipedia
Alvin Toffler (born October 4, 1928 in New York City [ 2 ] ) is an American writer and futurist , known for his works discussing the digital revolution , communication revolution , corporate revolution and technological singularity . A former associate editor of Fortune magazine, his early work focused on technology and its impact (through effects like information overload ). Then he moved to examining the reaction of and changes in society . His later focus has been on the increasing power of 21st century military hardware, weapons and technology proliferation, and capitalism .What we’re missing now, on another level, is not just biology, but cosmology. People treat the digital universe as some sort of metaphor, just a cute word for all these products. The universe of Apple, the universe of Google, the universe of Facebook, that these collectively constitute the digital universe, and we can only see …
Ray Kurzweil (Accelerating Intelligence)
Ray Kurzweil - Wikipedia
Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil ( pronounced /ˈkɜrzwaɪl/ KURZ -wyl ; born February 12, 1948) is an American author, scientist, inventor and futurist . Aside from futurology, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis , speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism , the technological singularity , and futurism . Ray Kurzweil grew up in the New York City borough of Queens .Michael Anissimov (Accelerating Future)
Just reposting a comment that was left by "Braking Future" during my haitus... It sure looks pretty bleak around here these days. By the looks of it transhumanism is near dead, certainly very deep into the rehash territory, a mere zombie of what it was 10-20 years ago. What went wrong? Probably nothing. It seems transhumanism has reached one of its main goals: seems everyone involved with H+ gets funded these days, yet nothing much seems to happen.The Singularity Institute (informally SingInst , formerly Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence or SIAI ) is a non-profit organization founded in 2000 to develop safe artificial intelligence software, and to raise awareness of both the dangers and potential benefits it believes AI presents. The organization advocates ideas initially put forth by I. J.
Singularity Institute - Wikipedia
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