Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed delivered a real “shot heard around the world” last week when he demonstrated an operational 3D printed gun. As profound as this event is, the future is about to become even stranger–and more frightening. This is because researchers at Duke University have just created a simple invisibility cloak using a [...]
At a recent healthcare event, I shared the stage with Dr. Richard Migliori, Executive Vice president of Health Services at United Health Group and, in his opening keynote presentation, he identified six factors driving higher-than-necessary health care costs: 1. Unnecessary services 2. The inefficient delivery of services 3. Price disparities 4. Excessive administration costs 5. [...]
Warhol was wrong. In the future, everyone won’t be famous for 15 minutes. If we are lucky, we’ll be anonymous for 15 minutes. As Juan Enriquez shares in an insightful and provocative 6-minute TED talk (posted below) all of us are being plastered with “electronic tattoos” as our Facebook posts, Tweets and even our physical [...]
Yesterday, I delivered the closing keynote presentation at Optus Vision2013 in Sydney, Australia. The title of my talk was “Tomorrow’s Technology Today.” As I recently said, tomorrow is rapidly catching up with today but to further appreciate just how quickly mobile, social, and cloud technologies are converging with “Big Data” and the “Internet of Things” [...]
I was recently notified by Google that I’ve chosen to be a beta-tester for its latest technology: Glass. I haven’t yet received a pair but this new video will provide you a glimpse of what’s coming:
As a futurist, I spend a surprisingly large amount of time simply helping my clients and audiences see what is already here today. To put this in a contemporary context consider the photo to the right of Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.), the “brash but brilliant” main character in the upcoming sci-fi thriller Iron Man [...]