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In this video from our Futurist Forum, Dave Evans says that the role of the futurist isn’t to know exactly what will happen 100 years from now.
Written by: Sarah Krasley
From molecular design to circular economies, things that are on the cutting edge now will be built in to things we buy every day in the future.
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Mayor Bloomberg outlines a system of flood prevention and storm preparation so that the city can withstand a once-in-500-years storm.
As part of our Futurist Forum, we’re hosting a talk with Institute For The Future Executive Director Marina Gorbis about the changing ways we learn.
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Futurist Glen Hiemstra discusses how our jobs--and even the idea of having a job--will change.
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These charts--made with information from weather satellites scanning the ground--show how wide and how tall cities around the world have grown. What’s happening to the size of cities in Asia will blow your mind.
Neil Harbisson has a disorder that leads him to see the world in black and white. But with a little body modification, he can still sense them with his cybernetic third eye. That’s right: This man has a cybernetic third eye.
The quarter-sized RoboBee looks like a fly, but it was designed to save us from colony collapse disorder. If the bees die, we have a robot backup.
Written by: Jamais Cascio
Scenarios for the future that involve a horrifying end for humanity might make for exciting reading, but they’re the most unlikely of scenarios--and incredibly unhelpful in creating a better tomorrow.
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