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Agriculture the New Game of Drones 25 Aug 2013 | 08:52 pm
A few days ago the people in Deer Trail, Colorado made national news with a proposed ballot initiative to allow hunting licenses to shoot down flying drones. Deer Trail would charge $25 for drone hun...
Search Engines for the Physical World: The Future of Search Technology in an Increasingly Transparent World 18 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm
Consider the following scenario. In 2035 a heinous criminal escapes in the city of Dallas, Texas and the local police department acquires a court order to conduct a thorough search of the metro ar...
The Great Freelancer Movement: 8 Reasons Why your Next Job will be a Project 10 Aug 2013 | 08:48 pm
By 2025, over 75% of the workforce will be comprised of Millennials, a group many refer to as the Facebook generation. That’s just over 11 years away. For big corporations this should come as sho...
Inspiring a Better World Ahead, the Museum of Future Inventions 4 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
What images come to mind when you think about the future? Do you think about near-term futures with 3D printers, driverless cars, and robotics, or do you think about more distant futures of space trav...
Preparing Our Minds for Thoughts Unthinkable: The Future of Colleges and Universities 28 Jul 2013 | 09:13 pm
If you haven’t noticed, there’s a massive battle brewing in academia. No it’s not just a battle between MOOCs and traditional education. What’s at stake is nothing short of the future of humanity. Ne...
Every Disaster Has a Beginning: In Search of Anomaly Zero 20 Jul 2013 | 01:19 am
In 2012, when 15-year old Jack Andraka’s uncle died of pancreatic cancer, he decided to look into it. He found that the current test for pancreatic cancer was over 60 years old, cost over $800, and...
Introducing the Fully-Automated 24-Hour City 13 Jul 2013 | 03:22 am
Fifteen years ago I found myself stranded in the small town of Faith, South Dakota. It was 3:00 am in the morning and my car was out of gas. To give you a better idea of my predicament, this tiny town...
By 2030 over 50% of Colleges will Collapse 6 Jul 2013 | 01:15 am
In 1791 when Mozart died, his 29-year-old wife, Constanze Weber, was forced to earn a living, so she began selling her late husband’s manuscripts and turned the former messy paper scraps lying around ...
In Search of Humanity’s Prime Directive 28 Jun 2013 | 10:28 pm
A thousand years from now, what is it that the human race will need to have accomplished? Yes, I realize that this is a huge question and many of you reading this are living paycheck-to-paycheck worr...
Proposal to Eliminate Forest Fires Completely 22 Jun 2013 | 12:35 am
Over the past few days I’ve been listening to news reports about the devastating fires burning in Colorado. Record heat, high winds, low humidity, and large amounts of beetle-killed trees have creat...
