Walter Breuning, the world's oldest man, died yesterday. When asked his secrets to a long life his top response was: "Embrace change, even when the change slaps you in the face. Every change is good." Related Posts The Secret to Unlearning in Seven Words The Key to Happiness is in the Door
The Future Will Require a Whole Lotta Unlearning
June 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If something doubles just ten times it is one thousand (1024 times to precise) larger. This is an important concept to grasp if you want to better contemplate the future. Why? Because no fewer than nine technological trends—semiconductors, data storage, bandwidth, genomics, gene sequencing, robotics, nanotechnology, brain scanning and scientific knowledge—are doubling anywhere from every [...]
Rising Life Expectancies Require Unlearning
December 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
My focus on unlearning has been borne from my work as a professional futurist. As I explain in this video, the future is changing so fast that as a people and society we must constantly change our worldview. To this end, the Wharton School of Business recently published an formative and insightful article entitled So [...]
Unlearning the Future
July 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Carl Sagan once advised the public to “never underestimate the power of exponential.” It was sound advice. Unfortunately, as with so much other wise counsel, it is easy to dismiss. You shouldn’t. Consider just a few recent examples of exponential growth. In 1998, a small Silicon Valley start-up was conducting 25 million web-based searches a [...]
Unlearning the Toaster
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Unlearn Your Mindset
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Unlearning Your Age
December 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article describing how appliance manufacturers are now doing a better job of designing products for aging baby boomers. One strategy they employ is to make their younger engineers wear "aging suits" to help them empathize with and better understand how more elderly users might actually experience a product. To this [...]
