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Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) February 11, 2015

In her article on outsourcing, Nancy Mann Jackson says, Entrepreneurs have long seen outsourcing as a strategy reserved for big business, but technology has made it a more accessible tool for small businesses--and for some small firms, outsourcing has made a powerful impact on their growth, productivity and bottom lines. Futurist Jack Uldrich says, that outsourcing coupled with, unlearning, is the wave of the future, not just for entrepreneurs, but for all organizations.

Uldrich, a futurist and best selling author will be addressing the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals on February 16th in Phoenix, AZ.

Named by BusinessWeek as Americas Chief Unlearning Officer Uldrich will explain why unlearning is a critical skill for the IAOP. Uldrich says, We live in a world where constant change is the only constant. New advances in technology bring forth exciting discoveries every day. But often lost in this new reality is the fact that organizations must unlearn old, obsolete knowledge and old ways of doing business, before they can seize tomorrows opportunities.

Uldrichs passion for unlearning has launched a career of speaking all over the world to a wide variety of organizations such as the Million Dollar Round Table, Allina, wells Fargo, ABB, Cargill and GE, among others.

Having recently delivered a keynote to the the Vision Council 2015 Summit, Uldrichs keynote was quoted as, Fantastic, inspiring, relevant, provocative, informative, insightful, entertaining, professional, compelling." On the 16th, following his keynote at the IAOP event, Uldrich will also sit on a panel for the Food Marketing Institute discussing the Internet of Things.

Parties interested in learning more about Jack, 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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Jim Carroll - Futurist, Trends, and Innovation Expert
Jim Carroll is widely acknowledged as one of the world #39;s leading global futurists on trends and innovation. Possessing a massive global blue-chip client list...

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Futurist Scooter Unveiled at CES 2015 - GetConnected TV
Electric scooters aren #39;t limited to Wal-Mart and senior #39;s homes anymore, thanks to a new device calling itself "Magic in Motion". The Inu is the world #39;s first smart, folding, electric scooter,...

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San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) February 10, 2015

Following a series of nine keynote events across the U.S. in January, global futurist and best-selling author Jack Uldrich has been selected to deliver the opening keynote address on future trends in agriculture and finances in San Antonio, TX on February 12th. Uldrich delivered his most recent talk, Banking Beyond 2020, to the WBA (Wisconsin Banking Association) last week.

Uldrich will deliver his keynote, "The Big AHA: How to Future-Proof Yourself Against Tomorrow's Twelve Transformational Trends, Today." Among the twelve trends Uldrich is discussing is the Internet of Things.

The Internet of Things and agriculture may not seem interrelated at first glance, but futurist Jack Uldrich says, agricultural banking interactions will continue to evolve as customers physical and virtual worlds become intertwined. Social networks and mobile platforms will transform customers banking experiences and expectations. Many other advances connected with the Internet of Things such as peer to peer lending will create an environment where a premium is placed on unconventional thinking and risk-taking. And the future of farming will be transformed."

Drawing on highlights from his upcoming book, Business as Unusual, Uldrich will also share insights on Big Data, precision agriculture, prescriptive planting, 3D manufacturing, wearable technology, robotics, genomics, nanotechnology, peer-to-peer lending, collaborative consumption and the Big AHA (his acronym for Awareness, Humility and Action) with Farm Credit System audience members.

A highly acclaimed futurist and trend expert, Uldrich has spoken all over the world to a variety of industries and organizations. He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and National Public Radio and is a guest commentator on the Discovery Channel's "FutureScape."

Uldrich who is also recognized as a leading expert in the field of change management and unlearning, has addressed dozens of agricultural corporations and associations, including AgBank, FS Systems, Novozymes, Land O' Lakes, the PMA, Wells Fargo, CoBank, Ag Spectrum, MosaicAg, Case IH, The Christian Farmers Federation, The Iowa Institute for Cooperatives, The Agricultural Adaptation Council of Ontario, AgGateway, the California Ag Summit, along with several other clients in a variety of industries, like the AMA, Fiatech, United Healthcare, Cisco, IBM, and Verizon Wireless.

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

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Intel futurist conducts research at local college
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Interview with author/futurist Arthur C. Clarke, from an AT T-MIT Conference, 1976
Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author and futurist, crossed paths with the scientists of the Bell System on numerous occasions. In 1945, he concurrently, but independently, conceived of...

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One of the most popular dinner party conversation topics is the possibility that the United States will be joined or even surpassed as a superpower by another nation, such as China. China has some very smart people, a vast land area, and over four times the population of the US, so it should catch up easily, right? Let's assess the what makes a superpower, and what it would take for China to match the US on each pillar of superpowerdom.

A genuine superpower does not merely have military and political influence, but also must be at the top of the economic, scientific, and cultural pyramids. Thus, the Soviet Union was only a partial superpower, and the most recent genuine superpower before the United States was the British Empire.

To match the US by 2030, China would have to :

1) Have an economy near the size of the US economy. If the US grows by 3.5% a year for the next 25 years, it will be $30 trillion in 2006 dollars by then. Note that this is a modest assumption for the US, given the accelerating nature of economic growth, but also note that world GDP only grows about 4% a year, and this might at most be 5% a year by 2030. China, with an economy of $2.2 trillion in nominal (not PPP) terms, would have to grow at 12% a year for the next 25 years straight to achieve the same size, which is already faster than its current 9-10% rate, if even that can be sustained for so long (no country, let alone a large one, has grown at more than 8% over such a long period). In other words, the progress that the US economy would make from 1945 to 2030 (85 years) would have to be achieved by China in just the 25 years from 2005 to 2030. Even then, this is just the total GDP, not per capita GDP, which would still be merely a fourth of America's.

2) Create original consumer brands that are household names everywhere in the world (including in America), such as Coca-Cola, Nike, McDonalds, Citigroup, Xerox, Microsoft, or Google. Europe and Japan have created a few brands in a few select industries, but China currently has none. Observing how many American brand logos have populated billboards and sporting events in developing nations over just the last 15 years, one might argue that US dominance has even increased by this measure.

3) Have a military capable of waging wars anywhere in the globe (even if it does not actually wage any). Part of the opposition that anti-Americans have to the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is the envy arising from the US being the only country with the means to invade multiple medium-size countries in other continents and still sustain very few casualties. No other country currently is even near having the ability to project military power with such force and range. Mere nuclear weapons are no substitute for this. The inability of the rest of the world to do anything to halt genocide in Darfur is evidence of how such problems can only get addressed if and when America addresses them.

4) Have major universities that are household names, that many of the worlds top students aspire to attend. 17 of the world's top 20 universities are in the US. Until top students in Europe, India, and even the US are filling out an application for a Chinese university alongside those of Harvard, Stanford, MIT, or Cambridge, China is not going to match the US in the knowledge economy. This also represents the obstacles China has to overcome to successfully conduct impactful scientific research.

5) Attract the best and brightest to immigrate into China, where they can expect to live a good life in Chinese society. The US effectively receives a subsidy of $100 to $200 billion a year, as people educated at the expense of another nation immigrate here and promptly participate in the workforce. As smart as people within China are, unless they can attract non-Chinese talent that is otherwise going to the US, and even talented Americans, they will not have the same intellectual and psychological cross-pollination, and hence miss out on those economic benefits. The small matter of people not wanting to move into a country that is not a democracy also has to be resolved.

6) Become the nation that produces the new inventions and corporations that are adopted by the mass market into their daily lives. From the telephone and airplane over a century ago, America has been the engine of almost all technological progress. Despite the fears of innovation going overseas, the big new technologies and influential applications continue to emerge from companies headquartered in the United States. Just in the last two years, Google emerged as the next super-lucrative company (before eBay and Yahoo slightly earlier), and the American-dominated 'blogosphere' emerged as a powerful force of information and media.

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Martin Ford Silicon Valley Entrepreneur,Futurist and Speaker Leading expert on the Robot Revolution, Artificial Intelligence, Job Automation, and the Impact of Accelerating Technology on Workplaces, the Economy and Society

Martin Ford is the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm and the author of the books Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future and The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future. He has over 25 years experience in the fields of computer design and software development. He holds a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a graduate business degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

He has written for publications including Fortune, Forbes, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Project Syndicate, The Huffington Post and The Fiscal Times. He has also appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including NPR and CNBC.Martin is a frequent keynote speaker on the subject of accelerating progress in robotics and artificial intelligenceand what these advances mean for the economy, job market and society of the future.

Martinis available to speak on the robotics revolution and the economic, political, business and job market impacts of advancing information technology. He can also offer unique insight into the implications of future technologies for specific businesses, industries and sectors of society.

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Saudi Arabia Festival of Science and Creativity - MAWHIBA - keynote speaker
MAWHIBA festival of Science and Creativity - report by Futurist keynote speaker Patrick Dixon. Future of education, high schools and university in Saudi Arabia. Research into science. Encouraging...

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