San Francisco was host to WorldFuture 2015 earlier this month. With around 700 attendees and professional futurists from all over the globe, it remains the world’s oldest and best known futures conference. On Saturday, the conference’s first full day, I had the opportunity to give my session, “Cybercrime 2025 and […]
WorldFuture 2010 has come to a close, but the ideas and inspirations it generated will carry on well into the future. Held last week in Boston, the annual futurist conference was often profound, consistently thought-provoking, and even occasionally unsettling. With nearly a hundred presentations, workshops, tours, seminars and keynote speeches, […]
My latest article “The Age of the Interface” is the cover story for the May/June issue of The Futurist which is out this week. A properly designed and implemented interface not only facilitates system-to-system communication, but it also simplifies and automates control of otherwise complex functions. Interfaces let us operate […]
Mark Twain once wrote “Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” The same might be said about the future – with one significant exception: I don’t think people are talking about it nearly enough. “But what about the energy crisis?”, comes the imagined reply. “What about […]