tcawireless .com/blog/ In March 2014 in London, in a closing keynote address to the Wearable Technology Conference, Cisco chief futurist David Evans forecast that the ongoing miniaturization of technology would lead to its installation inside the human body. “If you do the math and fast forward a little bit, in about two and half decades…
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Three recent scan hits show how work, workers, and even innovative offerings are shifting away from the traditional corporate setting. 1.Work is moving away from the office. A recent New York Times article on telecommuting noted that a 2013 survey for the Society for Human Resource Management found “a greater increase in the number of…
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An overly optimistic view of the future can be a precursor to negative outcomes, according to a recent study in Psychological Science. The authors found that during the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis positive statements about the future on the economy page of USA Today correlated with declines in the Dow Jones Industrial average in…
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Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. Startup Siluria is building demonstration plants for a catalytic process it says can convert methane and oxygen to ethylene, which can then be converted to gasoline for half the price of petroleum-derived gasoline, at least at today’s bargain natural gas prices. Science magazine…
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Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. Josh Freedman and Michael Lind consider America’s next social contract in The Atlantic. Joel Kotkin observes that increasingly Democratic Silicon Valley will pose challenges for progressives. Digital plutocrat supporters and rhetoric condemning the “1%” could eventually lead to stress within the Democratic coalition. BBC Future…
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Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. Writer Chris Mims at Quartz posits an interesting future for smartwatches–as sensors for smartphones. He cites proposed updates to the Pebble smartwatch OS as an example of how this could work. NameTag is a facial-recognition smartphone app the allows the user to take a…
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Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. Americans are increasingly doubtful about the future and the tenets of the “American dream,” polling finds. The first major poll of American Jews in more than 10 years shows rapid assimilation into the larger culture for every denomination except the Orthodox. Agribusiness giant…
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One of the central conceits of the Internet is that once something is published, it is out in public forever. This is so basic an idea that sitcom characters were joking about back in 1996 (1996!). But in the post-Snowden age, there is greater interest in being able to limit the data shared on the…
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Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. 2013 is on pace to become the first year ever in which the number of US paid TV subscriptions drops. The phenomenon is driven in part by the emergence of “cord nevers,” consumers who have never subscribed to paid television programming…
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Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. Slate suggests that a combination of Uber-like car services and autonomous electric vehicles could drastically change cities. Chinese researchers, using data from the Twitter-like social network Weibo, found that anger spreads more readily through social networks than joy, sadness, or disgust. In the World…
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