We are reaching an historical inflection point, where our current decisions about energy use and carbon will have major effects on how we live in coming decades. Here are four possible scenarios for what things will be like in 2025.READ»
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.READ»
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.READ»
It may only be eight years away, but a lot of things could change by 2020, driven by climate change and limited resources. How that will affect the ways we interact with brands remains to be seen, but there are a few likely paths.READ»
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.READ»
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?READ»
Want to know what magic tomorrow's screens may hold? The Latitude research organization asked micro Marissa Mayers and junior Jobses what they wish their web-connected computers could do. They answered with remarkable insight. And ...READ»
Lynn St. Amour, CEO Of The Internet Society, joins us for our second entry in the Crystal Ballin' series, in which CEOs and thinkers venture to speculate on what lies ahead. In today's edition, we answer the questions: What is the future of the Internet? And is it a force for good? READ»
Nearly two decades ago, Francis Fukuyama announced the “end of history,” the triumph of liberal democracy, and the end of clashes between political ideologies. He got it wrong: Since then, we’ve had our fair share of ...READ»
Organizations are operating under some very different assumptions driven by demographic shifts, globalization, the Great Recession, and the wide range of worker relationships available to the modern corporation. Each of these complexities introduces new uncertainties into the workforce equation as organizations try to plan the future workforce needs.READ»
Reid Hoffman, angel investor, co-founder of LinkedIn and Fast Company Most Creative Person, took the stage at SXSW interactive as part of the distinguished speaker series, and immediately brought the ballroom back to the future. ...READ»
In 2011, you will win prizes for buying broccoli. You will seek help from a device to control your fetish for Eames furniture. And all that twee analog crap Urban Outfitters is always hawking to bed-heady undergrads? You’ll actually ...READ»
Sometimes, basic science funded by the military is a bit out there. Researchers are subjecting fruit flies to "virtual reality tunnels," which the Air Force thinks might help inspire insect-sized military vehicles.READ»
While everyone is rolling out their predictions for next year, I thought it would be amusing to look at how some predictions from the past panned out. Leading thinkers in 1893 were asked to provide predictions for what life would look like in 1993. Here are some of the funnier ones.READ»
