Voting Deadline: Midnight, Friday August 27th Its that time of year again where SXSW posts the ideas for this years speaker/panel topics and asks for people to vote.  The panel that have been proposed for me to talk to is: Hacking The Future Can you predict what the future will look like in 5 to 10 years? Hacking the future requires the ability to dream, to visualize...

Last week, I gave a keynote speech at Edelman’s Leadership event in Chicago.  Once a year, the company brings together the top ~100 executives from around the world.  Richard Edelman asked me to present a talk at lunch about the “future of technology”.  I took some liberty with the topic and focused on the needed skill of “planning for the future”....

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 their bottom line.  But 3D isn’t just about the movies.  It has a role in the business world ranging from medical (3D medical imaging), oil and gas (3D geo-spatial) and financial services (3D modeling of...

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 is the precept that the world in changing at an ever increasing pace.  To ensure we, as a civilization, are prepared for this changing future, we need to spend the time and try to understand what the future will/could look...

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 Faire, its a weekend event where the DIY (Do-It-Yourself,), inventors, innovators, hackers, etc come out and show off their creations.  The event is VERY family friendly with activities and experiments for the kids in all of us to do. I will be...

Future Savvy: Identifying Trends to Make Better Decisions, Manage Uncertainty, and Profit from Change   This is the book that I’m carrying with me and its fantastic.  The writing is well balanced on the pros and cons across the range of tools and approaches to planning for the future.  The description posted on Amazon is ….   There’s...

During my recent trip to Shanghai, I gave a press conference where I presented a vision and timeline of major shifts occuring over the next 20 years.  For those of you who are podcast listeners, you know that I’m not a big believer of random long range forcasting.  In this case, we’ve been careful to understand the trends and dependencies. You may...