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...

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 that I shared was the role of science fiction. It’s staggering how much of what we do today is last generations science fiction!  Did you know: Suba was predicted in “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea”...

  During the downtime of the holidays, I’ve been working on cleaning up the website, updating the archive, etc.  In the craziness of the last few months, I didn’t notice that the podcast has been included in the innovation section of alltop.com.  If you are not familer with alltop, it took its inspiration from popurls.  As they describe...

  When is the best time to innovate? Innovation is 24×7 .. not something that you wait "until your in the mood" Some of the drivers that cause people/organizations to all of sudden change their view of innovation Competitors … they are constantly beating you to market Economic Trends … our old products aren’t selling – hurry...