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Workplace IT frustrations! Future corporate travel industry keynote speaker Futurist Patrick Dixon
Keynote on corporate travel industry trends by Patrick Dixon. It is ironic that most people have better technology at home and faster bandwidth, than they do...

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Thinking Strategically About Intelligent Decision Management: Technology Futurist/Speaker Jack Shaw
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Michio Kaku says technology waits for no one.

A renowned theoretical physicist, futurist and author, Kaku spent Thursday getting the Chatttanooga State campus up to speed on what he sees coming in the technology, economic and higher education systems of the future.

Kaku contends that most colleges are training their students for jobs of the past.

"There is no 1950 anymore," he said, "but our college system is still not up to speed."

The current college system is largely stuck preparing students for an economy based on "commodity" capital consisting of tangible products and services, Kaku said. Instead, he said, universities should ponder how they can prepare students for a world based on intellectual capital.

"I've interviewed 300 of the world's top scientists to get the best understanding of the future, and they tell me that, 'Hey, we're training a lot of people to graduate into the unemployment line,'" Kaku said. "The message I tell young people is that first of all, science is the engine of prosperity."

At Brown University and Duke University, specifically, Kaku has noticed an embrace of the continued pairing of technology with the human mind that he forsees as prevalent in the future.

"We put a chip in people's brain and connect them to a laptop and they can type, surf the Web, control their wheelchair, write emails, do crossword puzzles, and they're totally paralyzed," he said.

But regardless of the continued growth of online college course work, Kaku subscribes to the notion that human interaction will remain crucial in the higher education system of the future, perhaps just in reinvented roles.

"It will be very important, because we are human and we want human contact to give us mentoring advice and so forth," Kaku said. "But we use computers to accelerate that process and give us access to the best professors in the world, but the e-interaction will only go so far. You have to have the human in the loop."

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The beauty of great ideas is that they never go out of style. Richard Buckminster ("Bucky") Fuller--futurist, inventor and many other egghead-y titles--was on constant boil with them. Consequently, this tireless thinker's observations on everything from technology to ecology remain as significant today as when he pronounced them during his life, which ended in 1983 at age 87.

"His ideas are frighteningly contemporary and relevant," says D.W. Jacobs, who wrote and directs a play titled R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe. Opening Jan. 30 and running through Feb. 23, Jacobs' creation makes its bow at the San Jose Repertory Theatre, 101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose. The one-man show stars Ron Campbell, who also introduced the role when Fuller had its world premiere at the San Diego Repertory Theatre, fittingly, in Y2K.

"I don't try to cover the range of his inventions. I wrote the play more about how he reinvented himself as a model for others to follow--to ask, 'Why am I here?' " Jacobs says. "It's a very 19th-century New England way of thinking. Each individual has a perspective on the universe that's a concept of democracy. There's collaboration, but each person has to own up to what he knows and what he can contribute to society."

Meanwhile, Campbell hasn't taken on the Bucky persona for almost a decade, which meant he "had to relearn it from the bottom up" for SJ Rep. No matter. A veteran of several one-man shows (among other film, TV and stage roles), the artist who once played the King of Clowns in Cirque du Soleil's Kooza is full of Fuller wisdom now.

"It's very interesting to be inside his mind for two hours," he says of a part that is "a Mount Everest climb every night." "Bucky was one of the few people on Earth for whom nothing was off topic. It's a joy to inhabit somebody who had that breadth of mind."

The actor finds it appropriate that Fuller at long last is being staged in Silicon Valley; it ran in San Francisco in 2000. "I would hope the people who are tech movers and shakers would see the show and then send their employees to see it. I think Bucky would be most pleased that the show is here."

Of Fuller's famous, never-ending lectures--in 1975 he expounded for a 42 hour series called Everything I Know--Campbell calls them "thinking out loud. It can go in any tangent because of his ravenous curiosity. That was another thing that attracted me to this role. He was childlike in the best sense of the word."

Fuller's life, however, did have its share of tragedies. His older daughter died from illness just before she turned 4, and he felt some responsibility for it. He also contemplated suicide following a host of other personal setbacks. But fate seemingly, literally, spoke to Bucky and set him on a wholly transformative path. It's a stimulating and thoughtful course that we all benefit from now.

Tickets are $29 to $74; all tickets for individuals 30 and under, as well as for full-time students, are 50 percent off the regular ticket price. Available at 408.367.7255, SJRep.com or at the box office at 101 Paseo de San Antonio in downtown San Jose.

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DIY Recording Studio Setup for Funeral Homes | Funeral Futurist Buyer #39;s Guide
If you are looking record some audio or video for your funeral home, you will need a good mic. Audio is the most important element of a good video.

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'Clean'?

Clean. So Lee says, "OK guys, we have nothing, we are going to start now, there is one thing that is important: clean. You have to be clean. You have to brush your teeth, wash your hands, clean your room. Clean. I want the street to be clean. I want the school to be clean, everything to be clean." So that's the core, the center.

Around clean you start getting discipline. Aha! Discipline. So even today people complain, say, "Ah, Singapore is not a democracy. You cannot chew gum. It's illegal to chew gum."

So I did a lot of work over there, and when I study with young people, I tell them when they come in, "In other parts of the world, they say that in Singapore you cannot chew gum." And younger women18, 19they say, "Yes, but at 2 o'clock in the morning we can walk back home and we never have a problem." So the trade-off is do you want to chew gum or to be attacked when you go back home?

Will China live up to its promise 25 years from now?

I'm not sure. I'm not sure, because part of the Chineseyou know, my work is to study the collective unconscious. The way cultures and their conscious shape the future. When you react as a Chinese, you don't react as a Japanese, and you don't react as an Indian or a Brazilian. But China will never be a democracy, I'm convinced of that.

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Futurist Apala #39;s Video Blog - Puerto Rico

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C2MTL 2013: Steve Brown, Chief Evangelist and Futurist, Intel
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Curtis Peel (of Futurist)- Borderline (Madonna)

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