The Future of Work
This is a pretty tasty snack, rife with possibilities. A bit Polyanna-ish and not very even-handed. The world is becoming a hybrid of work styles, not monolithically mobile and on-demand. In any case, this is the sort of work style we have at Lanna Innovation and SEO Chiangmai, namely mobile, from anywhere, but with pulsations [...]
The Sixth Sense, an Augmented Reality Interface from MIT Labs
Note: added this to the Time Horizon document at the 8 year cognitive time band.
Nine Time Horizons – Connecting the Past to the Future
Update added the Time Horizon timeline which includes events at various time bands. Regular readers of this blog know that I intermittently opine on what are appropriate time horizons. This it seems is an underlying feature of many failures and successes in many areas of human behavior. Allow me to present some recent thoughts and [...]
Habitum Alteram Naturam – Part 3
Simplicity and Complexity Habits are simple, nature complex. This formulation is meant to help understand how to talk about and act regarding the future. Change is necessary, and it is even possible. How do we conceive of this possibility? How do we talk about it? The real question regarding talk, is to what degree is [...]
Habitum Alteram Naturam – Part 2
Talkin’ ’bout the future Talking about the future has two senses, the first is along the lines of “just talk” as opposed to action. The second sense has talking as a part of bringing the future into being. The best way to predict the future is to create it. –Peter Drucker The Monk There is [...]
Futurology and Development
Any future must and will actually come from places like Manila and Bangkok. At the very least it will find a home there. The present discourse around futurology is predominantly driven and reflected of the developed world. The future is a developed future along the trajectory of current developed nations. And thereby leaves the most [...]
Habitum Alteram Naturam – Part 1
Habit changes nature Habit and Nature Some might suggest we are human doing, rather than human being. I believe it was Aristotle who suggested it is what we do that makes us what we are. There is no essential being underneath our actions, per se, but the actions and the beings are concomitant. If so, [...]
Twenty Trends for the Next Ten Years
Caveat, these are specific to my own interests and attention in higher education and information technology, but also in regards to energy, material science and sensors, since these last three sectors will have feedback effects on the other trends. Forecasting? Not Possible People I have spoken with about the future know I am suspicious to [...]
Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision
Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision, originally uploaded by jeffmcneill. This is right out of Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End, set in San Diego, 2025. This is the near future, within our own lifetime horizon.
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