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I’ve been asked to join the Board of Directors for the Tech Museum.  If you can’t tell by now, my wife and I support educational…

With the recent rash of movies like Avatar, moviegoers are gaining a new love for everything 3D.  As a result, theaters are enjoying a positive impact to…

The video of the “Hacking The Future” speech I gave at Maker Faire 2010 has been posted over at Fora.tv.  The foundation for the speech…

On Saturday, I gave a speech at Maker Fair 2010 on “Hacking The Future” where I talked on predicting the future through a variety of influences.…

One of a handful of events that get locked on my calender each year is Maker Faire.  For those of you not aware of Maker…

My latest column for Forbes has just been posted …
One way technology companies make money is by pushing their latest and greatest gadgets to…

My wife would argue that my office looks like a computer museum.  I’m sitting here looking at a stack of old IBM punch cards, an…

I’m a firm believer that the difference between a good idea and a great idea is getting the timing right.  There are a number of items to…

The long awaited Creating Killer Innovations CD is finally here!  The CD has been two years in the making and I’m sure that many of…

A few months ago, I was approached by Forbes.com about writing a regular column where I would share my views and opinions on technology.  Given…

Just do a quick comparison of the market value to the book value for public U.S. companies over the last two decades and you will see the…

One of the constant challenges for an innovator is to prove the value of their work.  Many believe that innovation and creativity cannot be measured…

Have you ever had the time when everything was clicking?  When you came up with the idea that later you wondered where it came from? …

What is shocking to me is how many people don’t think of themselves as being creative.  Whenever I give a speech, I ask the audience…

Since the beginning of time, it’s been entrepreneurs that drive the creation of innovation.  True breakthroughs have been the result of an individual or small…

During a recent meeting I attended with educators and government officials, I shared my frustration with the “output” of the current educational system.   In…

We are a race of innovators – born to use our imagination to create not only solutions to our most pressing problems (polio vaccine) but…

A few weeks back, I was in London for press interviews and customer meetings.  The press interviews were with The Daily Telegraph, The Inquirer, Computing,…

We’ve finally got around to creating a new, combined site where all of the content from the multiple sites (philmckinney.com, killerinnovations.com, etc) is now brought…

During a previous interview session I did with Kym McNicholas at Forbes, I mentioned that we had to be done at a specific time as…