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”....

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”...

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, Reuters and a podcast with The Guardian.  As with any press interviews, you never know when or if any articles will come from it.  In this case, the objective was not to generate a direct story but to share thoughts/ideas...

  Just prior to heading out on holiday last week, I was asked to do a video interview with Forbes.com about my view (predictions) for 2009 around technology and innovation.  These interviews will be stretched out over a number of segments.  The first was posted this morning in the "tech" section under the title of "Technology Outlook 2009". ...

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...