Category Archives: Futurist

What makes us successful: Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard at TEDxCollegeBeauSoleil
Published by TedX BeauSoleil on Dec 6, 2012 see http://www.youtube.com THANKS to making this video available to me Gerd is a Futurist and the CEO of The Futures Agency, author of 5 books, former musician and a globe-trotting keynote speaker on the creative industries, media and communications, social technologies, as well as on energy, the environment and green business. Gerd is currently focussing on sustainable future scenarios and what has been called #39;sustainable economics #39;, including the idea of adapting Internet and networked-society principles to the world #39;s urgent climate and environment issues. He is based in Basel / Switzerland; his new book #39;From Ego to Eco #39; will be published in 2013. Please note: You can now download most of my videos by simply subscribing to this iTunes video feed (via Blip.tv) gerd.fm *** audio-only versions are now available here: gerd.fm or on the web at http://www.futuretalks.com My vimeo channel is here vimeo.com Enjoy! Gerd Leonhard Futurist, Author and Keynote Speaker Basel / Switzerland http://www.gerdfuturist.com CEO http://www.thefuturesagency.com Media Blog http://www.mediafuturist.com Gerd #39;s mobile apps: road.ie The Future of Business blog http://www.futureof.biz Public Speaking schedule: gerd.fm Twitter: http://www.twitter.com Need even more links? about.meFrom:Gerd LeonhardViews:0 0ratingsTime:13:05More inPeople Blogs

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Maria Entraigues - Extreme Futurist Festival 2012
Promo video of the Extreme Futurist Fest 2012 where I #39;ve been invited to give a talk at and featured in the video. It is a very promising conference! And it starts the 21st of December, 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar! Lots of expectations about this day.. Some say the world ends, some say a new era starts, I predict things will only get better, at least I always like to think like that, I love the past, I love the present and can #39;t wait for the future!! See you around! Stay tuned for more SHTUFF to be uploaded into my channel ;)From:maria entraiguesViews:0 0ratingsTime:01:20More inMusic

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Genetics for Fun and Profit: Andrew Hessel at TEDxVilnius
Andrew Hessel co-chairs the Bioinformatics and Biotechnology track at the Singularity University, an institution founded by futurist Ray Kurzweil and X Prize Foundation CEO Peter Diamandis, with sponsorship from world-leading organizations that include Google, Autodesk, and NASA. He is also the founder of the Pink Army Cooperative, a venture aiming to make open source personalized cancer therapies. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Futurist Magazine, H+, and Wired News. In thespirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)From:TEDxTalksViews:1 3ratingsTime:17:30More inScience Technology

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Joseph Laing EDID6506 FuturistReport
Emerging Trends in Instructional Design, Instructional Technology and Distance Education by 2015: Futurist ReportFrom:Jennifer Joseph-LaingViews:1 0ratingsTime:01:25More inEducation

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EDID6506 FUTURIST REPORT
This was my final individual submission for EDID6506, a course in the Graduate Diploma in Instructional Design, offered by the University of the West Indies (Open Campus). It reflects predictions of what I envision the face of the instructional design, instructional technology and distance education landscape to look like by 2015.From:cams1904Views:3 0ratingsTime:01:39More inEducation

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Switched on Sound 10: The Futurists
The Italian Futurist movement in art and music. From CD-ROM "Switched On Sound", created for the Duke Talent Identification Program. Based on Anu Kirk #39;s "A History of 20th Century Music", a multi-disciplinary course drawing on many sources and exploring the connections between the history, technology, art, and music of the 20th century. CD-ROM originally released in 2003, currently out-of-print and unavailable.From:Anu KirkViews:0 0ratingsTime:10:00More inEducation

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Nanobullets (feat. BONEZ)
Futurist Street Corner Jive Talk! Brought to you by PanAm. Because if they can #39;t get you there, who will? Thanks to BONEZ for lending his vocals. THE HELLO LEVIATHAN TRILOGY (or How to Introduce Your Child the Beast) will destroy your moral compass forever in Jan 2013. It #39;s coming children! Get your candles and donkey blood ready!From:AirplaneRadioViews:3 1ratingsTime:01:38More inMusic

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Everything Turns Everything Resolves by Hans Richter 1929 Free Music by Twin Realities Dreamers
Hans Richter (April 6, 1888 -- February 1, 1976) was a painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer. He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland. Germany Richter #39;s first contacts with modern art were in 1912 through the "Blaue Reiter" and in 1913 through the "Erster Deutsche Herbstsalon" gallery "Der Sturm", in Berlin. In 1914 he was influenced by cubism. He contributed to the periodical Die Aktion in Berlin. His first exhibition was in Munich in 1916, and Die Aktion published as a special edition about him. In the same year he was wounded and discharged from the army and went to Zrich and joined the Dada movement. Richter believed that the artist #39;s duty was to be actively political, opposing war and supporting the revolution. His first abstract works were made in 1917. In 1918, he befriended Viking Eggeling, and the two experimented together with film. Richter was co-founder, in 1919, of the Association of Revolutionary Artists ("Artistes Radicaux") at Zrich. In the same year he created his first Prlude (an orchestration of a theme developed in eleven drawings). In 1920 he was a member of the November group in Berlin and contributed to the Dutch periodical De Stijl. Throughout his career, he claimed that his 1921 film, Rhythmus 21, was the first abstract film ever created. This claim is not true: he was preceded by the Italian Futurists Bruno Corra and Arnaldo Ginna between 1911 and 1912 (as ...From:UKMPTVViews:1 0ratingsTime:03:27More inFilm Animation

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07 Chris Martenson at the 5th Annual VECAN Conference
Chris Martenson, PhD (Duke), MBA (Cornell), is an economic researcher and futurist specializing in energy and resource depletion. As one of the early economic blogger swho forecasted the housing market collapse and stock market correction years in advance, Chris rose to prominence with the launch of his seminal video seminar: The Crash Course. This recently published book offers a popular and extremely well-regarded distillation of the interconnected forces in the Economy, Energy and the Environment. These "Three Es," as Chris calls them, are shaping the future; a future defined by increasing challenges to growth as we have known it. Under that lens, Chris will speak to the challenges mdash; and economic opportunities mdash; the State of Vermont has in moving swiftly and strategically to a clean, renewable energy future.From:vtnaturalresourcesViews:0 0ratingsTime:04:07More inNonprofits Activism

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05 Chris Martenson at the 5th Annual VECAN Conference
Chris Martenson, PhD (Duke), MBA (Cornell), is an economic researcher and futurist specializing in energy and resource depletion. As one of the early economic blogger swho forecasted the housing market collapse and stock market correction years in advance, Chris rose to prominence with the launch of his seminal video seminar: The Crash Course. This recently published book offers a popular and extremely well-regarded distillation of the interconnected forces in the Economy, Energy and the Environment. These "Three Es," as Chris calls them, are shaping the future; a future defined by increasing challenges to growth as we have known it. Under that lens, Chris will speak to the challenges mdash; and economic opportunities mdash; the State of Vermont has in moving swiftly and strategically to a clean, renewable energy future.From:vtnaturalresourcesViews:0 0ratingsTime:09:29More inNonprofits Activism

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