Perfect Microwave Popcorn!
Eight years ago, I started telling my story about "perfect microwave popcorn" -- a story as to how in the future we would have appliances linked to the 'Net, that would…
Megatrends
Traditional offices -- Boring as sin!
I'm quoted in the Edmonton Journal today in an article about an innovative, new, cooperative office space. No link to the full article yet, but I'm working on it. Jim…
Media & Press · Megatrends
"THIS IS A TREND AND COMPANY TO WATCH"
My Vonage IP phone arrived today. I simply plugged it into my home network -- waited two minutes -- and can now make calls using a regular telephone handset anywhere…
Megatrends
What I Learned from Frogs in Texas
Notes the Chicago Tribune in an article about the global networked economy, on September 23, in what it refers to as hypercompetition"..... a global market in which an…
Keynotes & Events · Megatrends
Revisit the future by reading from the past...
In his column of September 21, 2003, Dan Gilmour, Technology Columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, made the observation, “Now I know why my refrigerator should be…
Megatrends
"Career planning in the 21st century"
"By understanding what is going to happen in the future, you can prepare yourself to maintain your career -- and hence your income -- through a period of unprecedented…
Change · Keynotes & Events
Online health care as a way to cope with looming crisis
I've been suggesting for years that the Internet-connected universe of the future will provide an opportunity for more home-care, helping to alleviate the shortage of…
Healthcare & Pharma · Innovation
Investors Business Digest agrees with me
In a client proposal back in June, I wrote that in the world of business information technology, "the money will be in the implementation - companies will continue to be…
Media & Press · Megatrends
CNN - "CD players becoming a thing of the past"
But in this case, CNN gets it wrong. CNN notes in a story that DVD players are coming to replace CD players in homes. No problem with that : DVD players are the fastest…
Megatrends