I’ll be spending my day off tomorrow at the Future in Review one-day conference called FiRE Global. I’ve been invited to participate in the CTO challenge, which is this case is a continued discussion about scaling energy, which may be no less than a talk about how to save the world. My belief (based on …
We may have a new in place to be seen in Seattle. At the least, we have a new must-see conference, FiRe Global. Put together by Mark Anderson, FiRe Global has a clear mission: use technology to help save the world. Mark has impressive strengths. For one, he thinks well. For years he has produced …
 Earlier this year, I attended the FiRE conference in San Diego. It felt like half an almost-typical technology conference (yes, there was a cloud computing session), half a “making the world a better place with technology” and in total, was the best three days I’ve ever spent on either topic. Largely, the value was …
I have been wearing my author hat lately because of book releases, but there are two very excellent futurist events worth discussing: one in the recent past and one in the recent future. I’ll start with the recent past. The Seattle Times did a very nice article about futurists in the Sunday Magazine last week. …
