Science fiction always seems to miss one point — some technologies advance unfathomably fast. So fast that they tear at the fabric of society, transforming most other cultural aspects in their wake. At a certain point we end up living in a standing wave of accelerating evolution. Change begets change. We have long since past the... Continue Reading →

Consciousness is perhaps the single biggest influence on your daily life and the greatest influence on the future. I’ll define consciousness here as “the reality that you are experiencing at any given moment.” That said, at this moment we are all experiencing dozens of them. Here’s an analogy: imagine a world with millions of bubbles... Continue Reading →

Factors for Future Professions I write about the future because I believe in the future or more specifically I believe in Man and our ability to resolve. The reason I so believe is that I have a form of empathy that allows me to feel the collective hearts of Man and he is worthy of... Continue Reading →

A good worry is a sign that things are changing. When the worry gets to a certain point, a little past the panic mark, it explodes into desperate over-solutions.  The pendulum effect can be seen as solutions swing across the “will we or won’t we” solve it time. We pretty much always solve the big... Continue Reading →

That illustration above is what smart people are so terrified of. It is the reason that Americans hate technology and are so willing to rebel against the status quo. The illustration shows an artificial intelligence (AI) mechanism that is self training and ultimately capable of putting you out of a job. Elon Musk and Warren... Continue Reading →

Used to be that advertising to lure new customers involved sponsoring a TV show or running ads in broad distribution magazines and major newspapers. As TV shows became increasingly expensive to produce, cost conscious business folks would buy 60 second time slots to air their message. Of course, if a producer could squeeze in 20... Continue Reading →

“When change is not necessary it is necessary not to change”  John F Kennedy US President who gave us lots of change from space travel to a nuclear “Hot Line” to a new type of war, the Cold War. As an inventor, I disagree vigorously with his quote. We have such a long way to... Continue Reading →

Back in 1999, I wrote numerous columns about the future. Let's see how my predictions in this one are unfolding 20 years later…   Remember, this is not science fiction. This is what could easily be real within the next couple of years: Imagine, if you will, coming home from work in the not-too-distant future. As... Continue Reading →

Inventors have to be able to predict the future with some precision. If you pour thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars of your own money into developing an invention only to have the world ignore it because it was too much too soon, well, you won’t make that mistake very often. This is how... Continue Reading →

I have always been fascinated with methods for predicting the future. Actually, not just me but everyone alive is driven to see what’s coming so they can either embrace it or avoid it. The future contains the outcomes of all of our efforts. Will we stay ill or get well? Will our pensions last? Will we get laid off next week? Will some nutball toss a bomb in our direction? As you can see, the future is pretty important and knowing it is the ultimate skill.