Futurist: Teaching Can Learn From Web 2.0
News Universities and employers concerned with the state of engineering education should steal a page from popular internet culture, visionary John Seely Brown said at a conference on Friday. A consultant and former chief scientist at Palo Alto Research...
[December 4, 2006, 8:21]
The Internet Of The 21st Century
News And that revolution is only just beginning, according Paul Saffo, a leading futurist and director of California's Institute for the Future. But the porn debate is mainly a smokescreen, with the benefits far outweighing the disadvantages, according...
[December 27, 1999, 6:00]
A Year Ago: The Internet Of The 21st Century
News And that revolution is only just beginning, according Paul Saffo, a leading futurist and director of California's Institute for the Future. But the porn debate is mainly a smokescreen, with the benefits far outweighing the disadvantages, according...
[December 27, 2000, 6:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Largely built by the Italians before WW2, it was an experiment in neo-futurist colonialist architecture. Monday 17/4/1999 Whew! What a couple of weeks. Holidaying in Greece where a raddled old rock-star friend is marrying an incandescently...
[May 21, 1999, 15:28]
Microsoft Realises That It No Longer Rules The Software World..
Talkback The tenor of Gates' remarks is more akin a futurist, than that of a MS salesman. Maybe he realises that his employees are not able to deliver what he envisages. With all the resources available to them, Redmond is simply not able to innovate.
[January 14, 2008, 8:20]
BT: Don't Worry About 'RFID Luddites'
News Speaking at the first day of the RFID Futures conference in London, Ian Neild, disruptive futurist at BT Research Labs, said that the anti-RFID lobby wasn't anything to worry about and wouldn't impact the rollout of the technology in the long-term.
[November 7, 2005, 12:05]
Jane Wakefield: The Real Tech Revolution
News One jolly futurist, Richard Pollack, cheerfully predicted at The Next 20 Years (TNTY) conference on Wednesday evening that in twenty years time Web sites will know us better than we know ourselves. It's that time of the millennium again.
[October 1, 1999, 16:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Largely built by the Italians before WW2, it was an experiment in neo-futurist colonialist architecture. Monday 17/4/1999 Whew! What a couple of weeks. Holidaying in Greece where a raddled old rock-star friend is marrying an incandescently...
[May 21, 1999, 16:28]
Jane Wakefield: Welcome To The New Millennium
News One such futurist, called (and I kid you not) Faith Popcorn, appeared on CNN ad nauseam over the millennium period telling us how our kids will have much better lives than us. So it is finally here. Another day, another millennium and the good news...
[January 7, 2000, 13:41]
A Year Ago: Jane Wakefield - Welcome To The New Millennium
News One such futurist, called (and I kid you not) Faith Popcorn, appeared on CNN ad nauseam over the millennium period telling us how our kids will have much better lives than us. Now that the millennium has passed with minimal disruption from bugs and...
[January 8, 2001, 6:03]
Start-ups Must 'adapt Or Die'
News Four years ago, speakers at futurist tech industry conferences like Silicon Valley 4.0 typically invoked the name of the Chinese warlord Lao Tzu or Ernest Shackleton, the plucky English explorer whose charismatic leadership saved the lives of his...
[October 8, 2003, 10:45]
Iron Man Versus Linux?
Blog He’s a much smarter, more mobile and much quicker to respond and evolved futurist. It's the perfect promotion for Linux - and also for the Marvel Comics hero, if he needed any. Iron Man is going head-to-head with Linux.
[April 15, 2008, 14:08]
For 2001, Futurists Are Playing Coy
News Other would-be seers are jazzed by the prospect of an interplanetary or even intergalactic Internet -- a mother lode of futurist fodder with roots in scientific research at NASA. Roger E Herman, a futurist specializing in workplace trends, says the...
[January 2, 2001, 14:14]
Report Predicts 'wired Brains'
News Also at stake is the health of the nation's economy, said James Canton, a futurist who helped organize the workshop. People linking their brains together to form a global collective intelligence. Humans living well beyond 100 years.
[August 6, 2002, 10:42]
Game Developers Get Philosophical
News Influential futurist and MIT computer sciences professor Marvin Minsky noted the role games have played in pushing technology forward. Jump. Shoot the thing that moves. Pick up the thing that doesn't move.
[March 26, 2001, 13:36]
Intellectual Property Under Fire At The WCIT 2002
News The first came as Don Tapscott, futurist and author, ferreted through his collection of IT gadgets to demonstrate the increasingly diverse range of digital devices carried by the average IT businessperson.
[March 1, 2002, 9:34]
