Emily Empel and the Future of the Commercial Sex Industry
Houston Futures Alum Shows Us Future of XXX
Garry Golden and The Future of Energy and Resources
Houston Futures Energy Consultant Shows Us The Future of What Makes Us Go
Futures in the News: Dr. Peter Bishop and Mapping the Future
UH's Faculty Head Dr. Peter Bishop Speaks
Genetics: Kevin Mitchell shares his thoughts on the future of genetic screening, playing God to make better humans.
Digital Business: IDEO’s Duane Bray shares his thought on the future of our digital lives from collective data to multi-layered narratives to multiple identities.
Cities: Audi’s Urban Future Initiative views on the future of cities reflects balance, locality, interventions, and sociology.
Health Care: Former Apple Executive says the future of health care is data-driven where big data means big directions.
Talks by .
Trains: Can you imagine a Trans-Atlantic train going over the water? That car better be comfortable!
Facebook: Quote of the day: “Facebook now has 845 million monthly active Users who “Like” or comment 2.7 billion times per day. According to Laney, ‘based on Facebook’s recent trajectory, this extrapolates to 2.11 trillion pieces of monetizable content collected during the past three years.’”
Advertising: The key to the future of advertising is keeping the customer conversation going.
WFS’ Rick Docksai introduces us to UAVs that can fly in formation. First small robots and bigger UAVs; everybody stay indoors!
Open the Future’s Jamais Cascio sees a bright future for women aka the Pink Collars; As the white, blue, and grey collars go bust in the automated and algorithmed world, emotional intelligence jobs become that much more important.
Ross Dawson has been on a European tour, keynoting and sharing his great understanding on how crowds are shaping the world. Here’s 8 key crowd insights he summed up for us after his trip.
The Fast Forward Radio guys share with us the growing thoughts on how immortality might be closer than we think.
Forecasting Scanning Talks by .
Social Networks: Guarav Mishra uses the typical 2×2 matrix to give us an idea on where social networks will be heading.
Farming: Rooftop fish farming in the city in which the fish eat the vegetables to live and you end up eating both. Sounds healthy to me!
Management Information Systems: A tad tough to get through, but Social-Technical Systems Fred Phillips explains how we’re slowly getting rid of business executives with algorithms. Put away those MBAs!!!
