Every year I play a predictions game. It’s not really good futuring since the world is way too strange for prediction except by true experts in a field, and I’m a generalist. But I still like the game. So here goes for 2012: Publishing and Creativity: I left this section in so I could re-predict …
I am lucky enough to know one of the best technology futurists – Mark Anderson of SNS. Â He runs the best conference I’ve ever attended: Â FiRE, or the Future in Review (yes – it’s even better than science fiction cons). Â But that’s a different topic. Â He also publishes a newsletter, and a piece of that …
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. …
