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Boston, MA (PRWEB) January 08, 2015

The future is here. Now. And global futurist Jack Uldrich is telling people how they can live into it in the most effective ways. As a best selling author and highly regarded keynote speaker, Uldrich brings to light the advantages of being creative and using the powers of individual imagination by sharing insights on the concept of unlearning.

"In the near future, the greatest change will be the accelerating rate of change itself," says Uldrich. "And that is going to require quite a bit of unlearning for a lot of people,"

Uldrich's keynotes include topics like "Foresight 20/20" helping organizations navigate the decade ahead with an in-depth exploration of ten technological trends that will transform the world of 2020; "The Big AHA" that focuses on future-proofing through the principles of Awareness, Humility and Action, and "Business as Unusual" which prepares companies for an uncertain and unpredictable future.

"How can we prepare for this uncertainty?" asks Uldrich,"The answer is that you and your organization must think and act in unorthodox ways."

Staring on January 16th Uldrich will travel the US for the following eight engagements:

JAN 13: Informatica Corporation National Sales Meeting in Las Vegas, NV

JAN 20: Institutional Investor -- Montage Deer Valley in Park City, UT

JAN 21: Signal Hill Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV

JAN 22: Vision Council of America in Palm Beach Gardens, FL

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2015: The Future Is Here and It Requires Unlearning

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Brian David Johnson has nothing if not an usual job. Hes Intels futurist. At first glance, many people might think he traffics in predictions. But Johnson says not so. He describes what he does asfuturecasting.

His job is to imagine what life might be like in 10 or 15 years and to imagine the kind of technology that might fit into that. Johnson says a big part of his job is talking to people, finding out whatstories theyre thinking about and getting them to realize that the future theyre creating is a function of thosestories.

Heres Brian David Johnson giving a TEDx talk about some of these ideas in2013:

What would you like to ask Brian David Johnson about thefuture?

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Part of the historic Futurist Cinema facade is likely to be kept as part of extensive regeneration plans for Lime Street, Liverpool council chiefs insist.

In response to online images of how the street could look following its expected facelift, the authority sought to reassure campaigners it hoped to retain elements of the site in design plans.

The news comes after pictures appeared on the website of developers Neptune alongside a description stating that student accommodation and a hotel were planned as part of the regeneration scheme.

The images of a future Lime Street are thought to be concept ideas rather than finalised designs, but do reveal a glimpse at the thought process behind the scheme.

The pictures suggest the two pubs at either end of the development - The Crown and The Vines - will remain, but show a dramatic change in between, with student homes, shops and a hotel among possible new structures.

The images also point to the loss of the historic cinema facades of The Futurist and The Scala, though a short row of shops next to The Crown appear to survive and the project does include plans to refurbish the former ABC Cinema with the creation of a new auditoria and venue with associated restaurants.

Accompanying the Lime Street images on Neptunes website is a short summary, explaining the development.

It said: This major regeneration initiative is being undertaken on behalf of Regeneration Liverpool and involves the clearance of a series of run down buildings in this important city centre street and the development of a high quality scheme with retail hotel and student accommodation.

However, the council has now dismissed the images as merely illustrative and said a consultation would take place over any official proposals.

A spokesman said: The regeneration plans for Lime Street are still a work in progress and published images are merely illustrative. The city council and the developers are in fact looking to integrate a section of the existing Futurist Cinema facade into the design of any future development.

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Hours before his company, SpaceX, was set to launch a rocket to the International Space Station, Elon Musk gave thousands of eager fans the chance to pick his brain in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" interview.

(Today's SpaceX flight was scrubbed due to rocket trouble. Musk said they'll try again Friday at 5 a.m. ET.)

During the interview, no topic was off limits, as Musk addressed everything from his favorite food and drink to his plan to send humans to Mars.

Here's what we learned:

Food and Drink

When inviting the billionaire futurist to a party, be sure to offer him whiskey, his drink of choice. The South African-born Musk also likes French food and BBQ.

Artificial Intelligence

Musk has already warned that machines with artificial intelligence may one day be more dangerous than nuclear weapons, however he doesn't believe we're set for a robot war just yet.

"The timeframe is not immediate, but we should be concerned," he wrote. "There needs to be a lot more work on AI safety."

Mission to Mars

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Elon Musk Reveals He Likes Robots and Whiskey

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Part of their vision came true. Music did indeed come to be made by machines.

What they didn't get right: the kind of machines that would make it.

In fact, the Italian Futurists of the early 20th century had something quite different in mind. What they imagined weren't exactly the iPods or synthesizers of today but rather something more like the Intonarumori devices headed this week to the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Part curiosity, part mystery, part sculpture, these 16 box-like "noise intoners" conceived by Luigi Russolo in 1913 embody the mechanized sound world predicted by our forebears.

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Intonarumori

What: An orchestra of Italian Futurist noise intoners.

When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16.

Where: Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland.

Tickets: $33-$45. Go toclevelandart.org or call 216-421-7350.

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Its 2015, the year of the glorious high-tech future predicted in the 1989 film Back to the Future: Part II

Futurist Michael Rogers told Newsweek that the movie did get a few things right like the three definite hits: biometrics, large screen home displays, video telephone calls, the CNN reported.

Futurist Ross Dawson said that flying cars do exist today for example AeroMobil but not in the way they're portrayed in the film.

They had video glasses in the movie and it's interesting that that is now coming into play with Google Glass and a number of other competitors, he further added.

Glen Hiemstra further stated that no doubt the hoverboard was wrong but there's a hoverboard company now, which uses magnetic repulsion and they're called Hendo Hoverboards.

They have to be on a certain kind of metal surface and the company has big dreams of having a big impact in the warehousing and factory business, where people could move things around on big hoverboards, he further added.

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Actor and director Joseph Gordon-Levitt has secretly married someone who may be even more accomplished than himself: Tasha McCauley, the multilingual futurist who cofounded a robotics company at NASA's Research Park at Moffett Field.

The two said "I do" in a ceremony at their home on Dec. 20, People reported.

Gordon-Levitt successfully kept his romance with McCauley under wraps. He said in 2013 that he was dating someone he met through mutual friends but wouldn't identify her because she wasn't part of the Hollywood scene.

She certainly isn't. New York magazine said McCauley, who speaks English, Arabic and Spanish, cofounded Fellow Robots as well as a foundation to encourage students to develop technology that will positively affect the world's population. She has also taught a course on "rapidly accelerating technologies" at Singularity University, based at NASA Research Park.

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt married CEO of Fellow Robots Tasha McCauley on December 20, 2014. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

Given Gordon-Levitt's interest in making films, from "Inception" to "Looper" that play with concepts of science fiction, technology and time, it seems he and his new bride will have plenty to talk about.

Martha Ross provides celebrity commentary for the Bay Area News Group. Follow her at twitter.com/marthajross.

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt married CEO of Fellow Robots Tasha McCauley, right, on December 20, 2014. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Kairos Soceity)

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