Gerd Leonhard, a known
futurist says in his book «Technology vs. Humanity», «In the very near future, it will no longer be about whether technology can do something but whether it should something — and why.»
Not exact matches
«I am tasked,»
says the oil major's top
futurist about the existential challenge ahead, «with making sure that Shell isn't a dodo.»
«I am tasked,»
says the oil major's top
futurist about the existential challenge ahead, «with making sure that shell isn't a dodo.»
said Robert Scoble,
futurist, and tech blogger.
«He has an infectious optimism, which becomes a self - fulfilling prophecy,»
says futurist Ray Kurzweil.
As the size of a computer chip approaches zero, computational power will be everywhere and in everything,
says Brian David Johnson, the resident
futurist at Intel.
«We are going to have new types of jobs creating new types of dollars that don't exist yet,»
says the inventor and
futurist.
You did an excellent presentation, and one of my colleagues
said you were the best
futurist he's seen... high praise since many of us see a lot of sessions and speakers!
But pretending it would go away meant the lid blew off right when it collided with the ever - growing turmoil around the special counsel,»
said Silicon Valley
futurist Paul Saffo.
«This limited edition collection celebrates Campari's great link to the history of art by paying homage to the influential Italian
Futurist movement in a fresh and original way,»
said Dave Karraker, Marketing Director, Campari America.
«If you put humans as the target, even though you are not going to make a human baby, it will be provocative, it will be misinterpreted, but people will engage,»
says Andrew Hessel, a self - described
futurist and biotechnology catalyst at Autodesk in San Francisco, California, a successful software company that specializes in 3D design programs for architecture and other fields that has been exploring synthetic biology applications in recent years.
When Boeke met with Sc2.0 colleagues last summer to discuss their next target organism, San Francisco, California — based
futurist Andrew Hessel of the software company Autodesk «sort of made this impassioned speech» for a new human genome project that would capture the public's imagination and inspire the field around a single goal, Boeke
says.
Physicist and
futurist Freeman Dyson
says we should search for extraterrestrial life where it is easiest to find, even if the conditions there are not ideal for life as we know it.
«By 2020, we'll have computers that are powerful enough to simulate the human brain,»
said (in 2009)
futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, a seminal 2006 book that has inspired a generation of AI technologists.
«Perhaps this is just at the beginning of the beginning,» Rensburg
said, quoting
futurist James Martin, who gifted $ 100 million to Oxford University to forge research on the challenges confronting the globalized world.
There was a time when «
futurists»
said that the book (text based, print or ebook) will die out — another technology driven prediction that hit the dust, at least in our, and the next, generation.
British
futurist Bruce Lloyd
says, ``... Renesch challenges us with authority, humanity, energy and optimism, to address the key issues facing society today, both globally and personally... full of valuable insights, as well as being a call to action.»
«We'll be shopping for a new ride each day rather than for a new car every few years,»
says Seattle - based
futurist Glen Hiemstra.
That being
said,
futurists and historians always tell a different tale, so I'll go on record as
saying that's one possible future.
«Technology is transforming every aspect of our lives, including our sexuality,»
says leading
futurist and publisher of FutureofSex.net Ross Dawson.
«This movement has been under way for a while now and the roots of it can be traced as far back as the start of the twentieth century, with the activities of the Dadists and the
Futurists,» Matthew Cain
says.
«We are the primitives of a new culture,»
said the
Futurist Umberto Boccioni in 1911.
«When I started working at the World Future Society, one of the first authors I worked with was Lester Brown,»
says Futurist editor Cindy Wagner (left).
# 263 Kevin McKinney
said In fact, I think
futurists ought to be thinking about the macroeconomic and international implications of a future in which energy is cheap, widely available and secure from supply shocks and international «energy blackmail».
LAS VEGAS - Legal
futurist and author Richard Susskind
says the new jobs for lawyers will be in the area of designing, developing and implementing systems that will transform the way legal services are ultimately delivered.
Speaking to Legal Feeds from London, U.K., Talwar, a
futurist and strategic adviser at Fast Future,
says we haven't yet created software that's as intelligent as humans, but «we're getting there.»
To many of us, much of what Holman
said today was what legal
futurists like Richard Susskind have been
saying for some time.
Well, this is it, I mean, and I will occasionally get introduced at a conference, Jordan Furlong, here is a
futurist and I'll get up on and
say, «You know, I'll quibble slightly, I think I'm a presentist because what I'm here to
say is that all these things that I'm talking to you about aren't down the road.
On the CBA National article, legal
futurist Jordan Furlong
says the answer is no.
«There is a growing and widespread expectation that the legal marketplace is set to undergo substantial change, if not transformation,»
says legal
futurist Richard Susskind.
«AI is happening now and firms that act quickly will reap the benefits,»
says legal
futurist and author Chrissie Lightfoot.
Though I've got to
say that in the past it's been pretty easy to be a «
futurist» for lawyers.
Futurist Peter Schwartz once
said in his book «The Art of the Long View»: «The single most frequent failure in the history of forecasting has been grossly underestimating the impact of technologies.
But if you ask
futurists what the next platform for interaction is, chances are they'll
say there's no screen involved.
In a separate interview,
futurist and author Thomas Frey
said the lack of a middleman is exactly what is appealing to investors.
Futurist Jesse Hirsh is a big believer in connectivity and
says that it is linked to all things: knowledge, education, friends, family, design, everything.
If SL represents a version of how we'll all eventually interact on the Internet, as some
futurists believe it does,
says Young, «then we need to be learning all we can about it so we're ready for that.»