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Houston Futures Scanning Hits- 7.18.2011
Will the new code writers of the future be changing the code of life? Genome editing allows for scientists to change DNA quickly, making cloning [...]
Houston Futures Scanning Hits- 7.14.2011
The storing and recapturing of energy has also stopped a much higher rate of renewable energy solutions for our world. Fossil fuels has the built-in [...]
Houston Futures Scanning Hits- 7.11.2011
Understanding human behavior has never been easier than the future of recognition through software, and body language, previously deciphered through years of training, can now [...]
Information In Today's Age: A Frontline Club Talk With Wikileaks' Julian Assange And Philosopher Slavoj Zizek
We are in the information age, so an important part of the age is information. Here's a talk on how Wikileaks, the media, and information [...]
Houston Futures Scanning Hits- 7.08.2011
The power of food, how we get it, and how expensive it is will be an important aspect of social life in the future. The [...]
Introducing Integral Futures….Live
I posted a a couple of clips introducing Integral Futures (part 1 and part 2, about 2o minutes total) taken from theUH Certificate in Strategic Foresight course about [...]
More Fun with Evaluating Forecasts
I have written and posted on how forecasting is generally more accurate than at least the media would have you believe — with the caveat the forecasts [...]
World Future Society 2011: Houston Futures Making Appearance
I'm headed to Vancouver this week to speak at the World Future Society's Annual Conference. I will be on the panel, Best of Houston [...]