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December 21st, 2012 - Part 3
Episode 97 Special guests: Desiree Hurtak, Ph.D., Social Scientist JJ. Hurtak, Ph.D., Ph.D. Futurist, Social Scientist The reality behind the Mayan calendar and 2012; a new age , a time for spiritual and internal reconfiguration. (more in the next video of the 2012 series)From:JamesJTraitzViews:19 4ratingsTime:04:56More inEntertainment

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DVD Spotlight: 1985 Blue Devils
http://www.dcistore.org Buy the 1985 Legacy Collection DVD (Available this week only for $28. Regular price: $35) Blue Devils #39; 3rd place show finished just a tenth of a point under 2nd place Santa Clara Vanguard, kicking off with Marius "Butch" Nordal #39;s "Liferaft Earth." (Futurist Buckminster Fuller, best known for the creation of the geodesic dome, used this term along with "spaceship earth" to describe our planet as a vessel hurtling through space, the planet being a spherical container upon which we all rely for sustenance.) Nordal is a jazz pianist who is known for his interviews of other musicians and his YouTube videos covering various jazz topics. http://www.dci.org Learn more about the 1985 Blue Devils, and save this week only on the Legacy DVD that contains the complete Blue Devils performance, along with all finalists from the 1985 World Championship.From:DCIFanNetworkViews:532 7ratingsTime:01:35More inMusic

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How to Deal with the Future: Using business insights to plan your life
Author and futurist Tamar Kasriel shows how resilient companies plan and make decisions, and reveals how individuals can exploit these techniques to create a better future for themselves. Listen to the podcast of the full event including audience Q A: http://www.thersa.org Our events are made possible with the support of our Fellowship. Support us by donating or applying to become a Fellow. Donate: http://www.thersa.org Become a Fellow: http://www.thersa.orgFrom:theRSAorgViews:10 0ratingsTime:16:28More inEducation

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The Woman in Black Interview.avi
Barry Robinson interviews the cast of the theatrical version of The Woman in Black, Julian Forsyth Antony Eden before their first performance at The Futurist Theatre on Monday 17th December 2012 Celebrating its 25th birthday, the unanimously acclaimed production of THE WOMAN IN BLACK returns to Scarborough, where it first premiered back in 1987. Offering audiences a thrilling Christmas treat, the production will play at the Scarborough Futurist Theatre from Monday 17th to Saturday 22nd December as part of a major national tour. Julian Forsyth plays the role of #39;Arthur Kipps #39; and Antony Eden plays the role of #39;The Actor #39;. Both Forsyth and Eden have previously performed these roles at the Fortune Theatre in the West End. THE WOMAN IN BLACK is produced by PW Productions Ltd. Adapted by STEPHEN MALLATRATT From the novel by SUSAN HILL, THE WOMAN IN BLACK was first performed at the Theatre-By-The-Sea in Scarborough in 1987 to rave reviews. Now in its 23rd year in the West End, over 7 million people have lived to tell the tale of one of the most terrifying and successful theatre events ever staged. Filmed on Monday 17th December 2012 for http://www.bryl-voice.tv, http://www.bryl-radio.com, http://www.scarboroughvoice.co.uk Special thanks to Andrew Nesbit (Futurist Theatre General Manager) and The Futurist Theatre.From:TheTimeblazerViews:0 0ratingsTime:05:41More inEntertainment

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Ray Kurzweil

Google (GOOG) made a very important hire this past week when it decided to bring on famed futurist Ray Kurzweil as its new director of engineering. What makes the hire particularly intriguing is Kurzweil is equal parts brilliant and insane: He is a pioneer in fields such as speech recognition technology but he also thinks he will live forever after he uploads his consciousness onto a computer. After learning about the Kurzweil hire, I decided to take a peak back at my copy of The Singularity is Near, Kurzweils most famous futurist tome where he predicted that human beings would soon transcend biology and traverse the universe as immortal cyborgs. In no particular order, here are some of Kurzweils craziest predictions.

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Kurzweil, who is now 64 years old, knows that theres a chance that his flesh body (or as he calls it, Body 1.0) could die before he gets to upload his brain into a computer and fly around the world as a swarm of nanobots. To ensure that he lives long enough to see such technological marvels, Kurzweil says he takes 250 supplements (pills) a day and receives a half-dozen intravenous therapies each week (basically nutritional supplements delivered directly into my bloodstream, thereby bypassing my GI tract). (page 211)

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While that may sound excessive to you flesh-based humans, its also the price Kurzweil is willing to pay for a far-flung chance at immortality. So while you may scoff at Kurzweils projections right now, he may have the last laugh when youre dying in a hospital and hes whirring about as a software-based human in Body 2.0.

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TSB Interview: Carolyn Corbin, Socioeconomic Futurist
TSB sat down with author and public speaker Carolyn Corbin, of McKinney, Texas. Corbin discusses how McKinney can become a 4.0 city.From:TownSquareBuzzViews:4 0ratingsTime:05:33More inEducation

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Most people and corporations are terrible at planning for the future, according to prominent futurist Dr. Peter Bishop of the University of Houston.

"The way the public and particularly the way policy and decision makers talk about the future, is with way more certainty than they should have," Bishop explained in a phone conversation with Business Insider.

"To tell you what's going to happen is asking the wrong question," he said. "It's not what the future will be, but what it could be or what it might be. And the problem is that in the halls of decision, in the boardroom or the pentagon or something like that, That degree of uncertainty is not welcome."

Bishop says there are subtleties to future planning that can only be grasped by a futurist.

Several major corporations feel the same way, which is why Google just hired futurist Ray Kurzweilas director of engineering and Cisco employs furturist Dave Evans. Bishop himself has worked with IBM, NASA, Nestle, and more.

Says Bishop: "We're encouraging companies to spend a little bit of time thinking about the future, single digit percents. They don't do it because they don't know how to do it so they think it's a waste of time, and the reason that they don't know how is because nobody in their schools has ever taught them how to do it."

So what are the keys to thinking like a futurist?

Futurists think in terms of "multiple futures" rather than one. Not only does this increase the chances that one will have a plan for the actual future, but it also "intellectually conditions" one to adapt to change.

Futurists also see value in challenging basic assumptions.

"What we do now is basically assume," says. Bishop. "Then we go on and make plans, and those assumptions are fine. The problem is we don't challenge those assumptions, and what we've been taught in physics class is to state your assumptions. We were never taught to say, 'and what if those assumptions are wrong? What's different about it?'"

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The Past- A Century of Teaching with Technology, Part 2
The Past: A Century of Teaching with Technology, Part 2 Technology has been used to enhance learning and teaching for over one hundred years. Most Faculty and Instructional Technologists are focused on current and future technology and often do not have a century old perspective on the interplay of learning theory and mass communications technology. Dr Henry J. Burnett, although primarily a Futurist, is a scholar of Instructional Technology and Mass Media. Professor James Bierman will trace several stages of digital content development leading to the Internet Age. Time travel to the not so distant past and understand the early beginnings of Instructional Technology in Higher Education. (Note: This presentation will be based on the writings of Paul Saettler, CSU, Sacramento Professor of History, A History of Instructional Technology (1968) and The Evolution of American Educational Technology (1990).From:Henry BurnettViews:2 0ratingsTime:28:47More inEducation

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December 21st, 2012 - Part 2
Episode 96 Special guests: Desiree Hurtak, Ph.D., Social Scientist JJ. Hurtak, Ph.D., Ph.D. Futurist, Social Scientist The reality behind the Mayan calendar and 2012; a new age , a time for spiritual and internal reconfiguration. (more in the next 2 videos of the 2012 series)From:JamesJTraitzViews:1 2ratingsTime:03:06More inEntertainment

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December 21st, 2012 - Part 1
Episode 95 Special guests: Desiree Hurtak, Ph.D., Social Scientist JJ. Hurtak, Ph.D., Ph.D. Futurist, Social Scientist The reality behind the Mayan calendar and 2012; a new age , a time for spiritual and internal reconfiguration. (more in the next 3 videos of the 2012 series)From:JamesJTraitzViews:4 1ratingsTime:02:59More inEntertainment

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