Self Driving Cars are Coming
I came across an insightful blog on self driving cars from Peter Diamandis (entrepreneur, principle creator of X-Prize movement, etc.) He agrees that self driving cars are coming sooner than originally...
View ArticleAutonomous Trucks on the Horizon
Autonomous vehicles will be the focus of the next MIT Enterprise Forum, Northwest Chapter, here in Seattle on October 29, 2014. You can register here. This is a subject that is racing (pun intended)...
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Solar energy growing too fast?
Interesting that conversation is beginning to focus on whether solar energy and other renewables are growing too fast for the current electricity generating and grid system to cope with. The basic...
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Daring Future Architecture
Kempinski Hotel Yanqi Lake near Beijing Why is architecture in the U.S., and particularly in my home of Seattle, so boring? I’m sure there are reasons, but I don’t really know what they are. Will no...
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An Unexpected Future?
George Dvorsky suggests 11 ways that the future could turn out differently than we expect, in a recent article at io9. Its not an especially happy list, but worth a read for sure. Or perhaps an...
View ArticleTesla Powerwall Will Change Electricity Business
This is what vision looks like. Watch Elon Musk announce Tesla Powerwall, the next phase in his plan to change the electricity business, from one were we mostly harvest old sunlight in the form of dead...
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Robots, Drones and Self-Driving Cars: Glen Reviews the Future
This week marked the 35th anniversary of the Puget Sound Business Journal. For the occasion, one of their writers, Patti Payne, interviewed me about the next 35 years. We discussed both general future...
View ArticleThe future and poverty – seeking a way forward
It was refreshing to see the President of the United States take a full hour to sit on a panel at a faith-based conference on confronting the future and poverty this past week at George Washington...
View Article5 Trends for Future of Business
We just posted a new article about 5 business trends for the future of business. The trends are not the usual suspects regarding technology, AI, robotics and the like. While interesting, those trends...
View ArticleVideo What Makes Elon Musk Tick
Yesterday I spent much of the day with the Customer Solutions team of Avista, the innovative energy company based in Spokane, Washington. We explored future trends on a 5-10 year horizon. We talked a...
View ArticleFuture of Traditional IT
We have a new article up on the future of traditional IT. Is traditional IT really dead? As enterprise computing has migrated to the cloud, traditional IT departments face a future challenge to their...
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The future demise of coal
Wyoming Coal Mine, photo credit Wikipedia One of the most interesting future trends today is the ongoing decline in the coal industry. Many coal companies are facing financial difficulty as the price...
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The Future and Aging
Last week I had the privilege of presenting the keynote speech on the future and aging to the opening general session of the annual N4A Conference, which is the annual meeting of the National Area...
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Self Driving Cars Part of the Future
I do think that self driving cars and vehicles are part of a preferred future. I particularly like Google’s approach, which is to eliminate the idea of human driving altogether, getting rid of...
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How cheap can solar get? Very cheap indeed.
Originally posted on August 10, 2015 at the RamezNaam Blog, by Ramez Naam What’s the future price of solar? I’ll attempt to make some projections (tentatively) here. If current rates of improvement...
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Shell Abandons Arctic Drilling
It was not really that hard to foresee the decision announced by Shell Oil today that they are abandoning their efforts to drill for oil in the Arctic, namely in the Chukchi Sea. You might recall the...
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7 Emerging Technologies
I come across lists of emerging technologies all the time. This one, from the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies is particularly good. This institute was founded in 2004 by philosopher Nick...
View ArticleDigital Transformation – Cisco Podcast
Cisco recently published a podcast that I had the opportunity to do for them, for their online project they call Connected Futures: Business Innovation Insights. The project involves podcasts, a...
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Future of Transportation and Energy
I had the opportunity to keynote the annual Landmark Solutions Innovation Forum and Expo. Landmark, a Halliburton business line, is the leading technology solutions provider of data and analytics,...
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Future of Health Care and Medicine
Few fields offer so much promise to leverage new knowledge and technology than does medicine and health care. Progress can still be slow and frustrating, but there are tremendous breakthroughs...
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