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A Doctor in your Pocket
Star Trek popularized the notion of mobile medical diagnostics with its tricorder. Now, almost five decades later, consumer-friendly health diagnostics delivered via mobile devices are becoming a reality...and this is happening sooner than envisioned by Star Trek's calculations. (We're about two centuries ahead of schedule for those of you who are counting.)
originally posted at The Trends & Foresight Blog
Artificial Vision for the Blind - Future Trends - Day 1
On Day 1 of the World Future Trends conference, Daniel Epstein of the Unreasonable Institute, blew the minds of a fairly sophisticated audience that by all accounts lives and breathes trends and innovation for a living.
originally published at The Trends and Foresight blog.
Its Hard to Part with Cash - The Future is Mobile Money
A recent study found that people think differently about their purchases when they are using physical cash versus credit cards (and probably the same for other forms of digital currency like gift cards, mobile money, etc). People have a harder time parting with cash because they focus more on how much they are spending rather than what they are getting for it.
originally posted at The Trends and Foresight Blog
No More Car Crashes by 2020?
The leading cause of car accidents is pretty obvious - its human error. The only way to truly make driving safer for everyone is to give the person behind the wheel more tools to drive safely - or even remove the human element altogether.
originally posted at The Trend and Foresight Blog
Free as a Price Point
While the idea of FREE isn't new, we continue to see it gain traction, and this has surely accelerated since the dawn of the web, as this article from today's Fast Company reminds us...
originally posted at the Trend and Foresight Blog.
Drinking to Your Health - Premium Juices and Medical Foods
Eurozone Futures - Possible Consequences of a Breakup
Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you've probably noticed the increase in reporting this week about a possible Greek exit from the euro zone. The chart below (created with Google Trends) shows how searches and news stories about this scenario have spiked recently.
originally posted at The Trends & Foresight blog
Generation X is the Startup Generation
As Gen Xers reach midlife, they are emerging as one of the most active age cohorts and an overlooked pool of leadership and entrepreneurial talent. Here are five interesting facts about Gen X at midlife:
originally posted at the Trend and Foresight Blog.
The Prioria Maveric and the Future of UAVs
We published a Technology Foresight brief recently about the future civilian applications of UAVs, so it was fortuitous that I happened to meet Rich Goodwyn, a retired Navy captain who works at Prioria Robotics, for lunch last week. Standing by his car, he pulled out a large poster canister and removed the Maveric mini UAV.
originally posted at the Trend and Foresight Blog.
Digital Possessions
How do people view their virtual possessions?
A study was commissioned by the cloud services company Rackspace, but carried out independently in partnership with the Centre for Creative and Social Technology at University of London.
Quoted below are some of the findings that caught my eye.
originally posted at the Trend and Foresight Blog.
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THE FUTURIST Magazine Releases Its Top 10 Forecasts for 2013 and Beyond (With Video)
Each year since 1985, the editors of THE FUTURIST have selected the most thought-provoking ideas and forecasts appearing in the magazine to go into our annual Outlook report. The forecasts are meant as conversation starters, not absolute predictions about the future. We hope that this report--covering developments in business and economics, demography, energy, the environment, health and medicine, resources, society and values, and technology--inspires you to tackle the challenges, and seize the opportunities, of the coming decade. Here are our top ten.
Why the Future Will Almost Certainly Be Better than the Present
Five hundred years ago there was no telephone. No telegraph, for that matter. There was only a postal system that took weeks to deliver a letter. Communication was only possible in any fluent manner between people living in the same neighborhood. And neighborhoods were smaller, too. There were no cars allowing us to travel great distances in the blink of an eye. So the world was a bunch of disjointed groups of individuals who evolved pretty much oblivious to what happened around them.
Headlines at 21st Century Tech for January 11, 2013
Welcome to our second weekly headlines for 2013. This week's stories include:
- A Science Rendezvous to Inspire the Next Generation
- Next Steps for the Mars One Project
- Feeding the Planet Would Be Easier if We Didn't Waste Half of What We Produce
Where is the future?
Like the road you can see ahead of you as you drive on a journey, I suggest the future is embedded in emerging, continuous space-time. Although you’re not there yet, you can see the road in front of you. In the rear-view mirror stretches the landscape of the past, the world you have been through and still remember.
Transparency 2013: Good and bad news about banking, guns, freedom and all that
“Bank secrecy is essentially eroding before our eyes,” says a recent NPR article. ”I think the combination of the fear factor that has kicked in for not only Americans with money offshore, countries that don’t want to be on the wrong side of this issue and the legislative weight of FATCA means that within three to five years it will be exceptionally difficult for any American to hide money in any financial institution.”
The Internet of Things and Smartphones are Breaking the Internet
I have written several articles on network communications on this blog site as well as on other sites, describing its e
BiFi, Biology, Engineering and Artifical Life
BiFi is to biology as WiFi is to computers. It's a technology being pioneered by researchers at Stanford University and other institutions, looking at bioengineering techniques for creating complex biological communities working together to accomplish specific tasks. In a sense every organ and every system of coordinated activity within our bodies runs as a BiFi network.