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Shelby, NC (PRWEB) March 17, 2015

Highly acclaimed education futurist, technology forecaster, and best-selling author, Jack Uldrich has been selected to deliver two keynote speeches at Cleveland Community College in Shelby, NC, on March 19th and 20th.

The materials presented in this lecture series are based on a combination of Uldrich's best-selling book, "Higher Unlearning: 39 Post Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future," and his latest book, "Foresight 2020: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow." The lectures are designed to provide education students, teachers and North Carolina based innovators with solid and thought-provoking ideas and practical strategies for life inside and outside of the academy. A sample of some of Uldrich's ideas on the future of education can be found in this chapter, The Future of Higher Education: A Cloudy Forecast, from Foresight 2020.

Beyond addressing a number of educational trends, including open-source educational platforms (such as Coursera, EdX and Udacity), mobile web communications, interactive and customizable e-books, gaming dynamics, augmented-reality, artificial intelligence, and crowdsourcing; Uldrich also will tackle how these trends are transforming the student and teacher relationship and review what educational leaders must do today in order to get ahead of tomorrow's coming changes.

In his second lecture, "The Future Demands Unlearning," Uldrich will discuss why these future trends will require unlearning and provide an overview of how these technological changes are upending long-standing educational and funding mechanisms. Uldrich, who has been hailed as "America's Chief Unlearning Officer," will conclude the seminar by reviewing the consequences of not embracing the concept of unlearning. An overview of his talk can be found in this article: 5 Trends of Higher Education.

Uldrich has addressed dozens of educational groups and associations, including delivering customized keynote presentations to EAIE, in Istanbul, Indiana University, The Council of Great Lakes Schools, The University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Business, Educational Services of America, Belmont University, The Chief Learning Officers Summit, The Minneapolis Public School System, The Teaching and Technology Conference, The League of Innovation, The California League of Middle Schools, and The American Technical Education Association. Uldrich has also addressed a number of major, non education-related corporations and institutions on the topics of future trends, change management and unlearning, including Wells Fargo, Verizon Wireless, ABB, Cisco, IBM, PepsiCo, United Healthcare, WiPro, and General Electric.

Parties interested in learning more about him, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website. Media wishing to know more about either the event or interviewing Jack as a futurist or trend expert can contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.

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Why I #39;m Proud to Be a Futurist
After a few years inner conflict, I am taking back the F-word: futurist. I #39;m a futurist and proud of it, dammit. Here are four aspects of futurism that will ...

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Tips to Make Your Digital Life Efficient - The Medical Futurist
I rewired my social media profiles and my whole online presence to make my digital life as efficient as possible. Based on this experiment, now I have a diff...

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PCT Europe 2014: Keynote: The Futurist, Clinical Trials in 10 Years
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The concept of evolution is often described as a collection of chaos, infinite random events, varied choices and catalytic couplings.

In her 1998 book, Conscious Evolution, futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard posed an intriguing question: What if, after nearly 14 billion years of unconscious evolution, evolution now becomes self-aware?

Conscious evolution involves intentionally making choices rather than leaving things to chance, says Hubbard. Self-awareness would present infinite possibilities, allowing humanity to harness evolution and direct its future expressions.

Such ideas made Conscious Evolution a groundbreaking futurist manual. Hubbard became one of the worlds leading experts on evolutionary thought and action. Her belief is people can initiate positive, global change by working collectively and selflessly for the greater good.

Recently, Hubbard released a revised and updated edition, Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential.

In it, she explores how the planet can transition from its destructive, polluting, overpopulating phase to a system that fulfills its collective potential. She outlines her vision for The New Story of Creation, emphasizing opportunities presented by crisis and change. The remainder of the book is organized in three parts: A New Worldview, The Social Potential Movement and The Great Awakening.

For billions of years, nature has been evolving through five mass extinctions, but no species was ever aware of it, she explains. Now, we are aware that we are facing the sixth mass extinction and that humanity has some role to play in this crisis. We are affecting our own evolution by everything we do -- the food we eat, the cars we drive, the number of babies we have, the energy we use, etc. We have entered the first age of conscious evolution.

Hubbard hopes her updated edition will be used as a guide in times that present a species-wide opportunity to radically reimagine humanitys future.

(The New Story) is the newly discovered universal evolutionary story based on the recent discovery of cosmogenesis, the scientifically based awareness that the universe has been, is now and will ever be evolving -- and so are we, Hubbard explains. It is also obvious that nature is like an evolutionary spiral. It takes jumps toward higher consciousness, freedom and order through forming new whole systems. We are being connected to one another as one living system -- the next whole system jump.

In her work, Hubbard builds upon and merges ideas from a variety of fields and disciplines. Her goal is to map peaks of social creativity and projects that move us toward a positive future, launching a social potential movement in a self-actualizing society.

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A Tribute to "To Mor Row Futurist Poetry"
Short one. Every single piece from "To Mor Row Futurist Poetry", which is a recording of Polish and Italian Avant-Garde poetry and it consists of 2 Cassette ...

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San Diego, CA (PRWEB) March 11, 2015

When it comes to the future of energy, futurist Jack Uldrich says, The nature of how power is being produced, distributed and consumed is changing and so must those who run the industry.

The world is going to change tomorrow--this is certain, says Uldrich. If people dont pick up on these subtle changes, theyll end up locked up, inflexible and potentially out of business. Technology is going to require the energy industry to be nimble and adaptable in order to steer themselves into the future.

Uldrich is slated to address the National Fluid Power Associations Annual Conference in San Diego tomorrow, March 12th. According the NFPA, Fluid power is a term describing hydraulics and pneumatics technologies. Fluid power has the highest power density of all conventional power- transmission technologies.

Uldrich will deliver his keynote, The Big AHA: How to Future-Proof Yourself Against Tomorrow's Trends, Today. He will discuss a variety of technological advancements that will impact the fluid power industry such as wearable technology that will to control and automate smart homes to optimize energy efficiency, 3-D manufacturing, mobile computing which will reduce the need for physical stores, reducing real estate and energy costs, nanotechnology, robotics, sensors, and supercomputers.

Uldrich, a highly acclaimed futurist and public speaker whose aim is to help the NFPA and their member companies thrive in increasingly competitive energy markets. Uldrich has worked with a number of companies and dozens of trade associations in the utility industry. Some of his recent keynotes have been delivered at ABBs recent product launch tour on sensors, the CleaResults Energy Summit, Western Energy Institute, Southern Company, SDG&E, SMUD, Eaton, BP, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Missouri River Energy, Northwest Energy, Idaho Power and the Northeast and Northwest Public Power Associations.

Parties interested in learning more about him, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website. Media wishing to know more about either the event or interviewing Jack as a futurist or trend expert can contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.

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Given the seemingly endless influx of sequels, remakes, reboots and reimaginings, the prospect of an original blockbuster is quite thrilling. While recent attempts (Jupiter Ascending, Chappie) have been patchy, Brad Birds latest adventure, Tomorrowland, looks set to buck the trend.

Weve already been treated to a deviously mysterious teaser, which offered a glimpse of the universe that was being created. Now a full-length trailer has supplied us with a deeper look at what to expect.

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The film follows a wayward teen, played by Britt Robertson, who finds herself in the possession of a magical pin that can transport her to a fantastical other world. Her search for details leads her to George Clooneys boy genius turned resentful older man, and Hugh Laurie, who appears to be evil.

The second trailer offers more snapshots of the futuristic Tomorrowland, which shares the same name as a themed area of Disneyland. It also contain some recognisable rides, including Space Mountain, so we wouldnt put it past Disney to subsequently reveal stronger links between the park and the film.

Interestingly, the title appears to have been tweaked for international audiences. While its being promoted as Tomorrowland in the US, the latest UK trailer has it down as Tomorrowland: A World Beyond. Meanwhile, due to a naming conflict with a music festival, it will be called TomorrowWorld in some European countries.

Tomorrowland: A World Beyond appears in cinemas on 22 May.

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Futurist Flight Radio #32
The Return of the Futurist Flight Radio, getting underway and leading to new projects. Playlist: 01. Hardwell feat. Matthew Koma - Dare You (Original Mix) 02. John Dish Thomas Newson - Kalavela...

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