In the spirit of the coming holidays and the wishes for a happier future they conjure, here are 25 surprising, humorous or ironic predictions from the past, some of which didn’t quite turn out the way they were forecasted.
Five years ago this month, I sent senior writer Ellen McGirt to Palo Alto to stalk a cover subject. Our prey was a 22-year-old college dropout. He ran a free online service for college students.
It's time to look up from executing on your mission and reinvigorate your vision. We can't fix the global economy if everybody is so focused on their mission that they forget to dream a little.
Best practices are like vampires: They can suck an organization of productivity, drain its creativity, and bleed its initiative. If you seek perfection in perpetuity, your organization’s learning apparatus will become an animated corpse cursed through the ages to feed on its ancestors.
Struggling Kodak is made up of businesses being marginalized by digital developments: digital cameras, digital movie making, digital books, and magazines. Kodak needs to base its strategy on its brand, and suing over patents doesn’t do justice to its legacy. Instead, Kodak needs to think retro, and get small.
Microsoft's Envisioning Lab has a vision of the future, and you can watch it in HD. Learn how the lab sees the future of contextual data, smarter interfaces, and a "five-minute mode" on your phone.
In the future, artificial intelligence will surpasses the human variety, leading to a Matrix-like universe of virtual reality, immortality, and....yawn. Isn't it time for some new ideas?
