In the past year, I have given dozens of keynote presentations to a variety of clients. Below is a short 10-minute speaking demo. If you are looking for an engaging, entertaining and informative keynote speaker for your conference or event, please contact either Mimi Hair or Ryan Foltz at Leading Authorities or Angela Schlep at [...]
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 [...]
Nanotechnology, Google & Unlearning
May 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
As a professional futurist who has written two books on the topic of nanotechnology, including The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business, but is now interested in how the skill of unlearning can help society better prepare for the future, I couldn’t but help notice this [...]
The Lesson of the Lily Pad
January 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I was recently asked by a leading nanotechnology consultant, Rocky Rawstern, if I could say anything on the topic of nanotechnology to a wider audience but keep it under 250 words, what would I say? Here was my response: To those who don’t believe nanotechnology will change the world in the near future just because it [...]
Unlearning Prediction
August 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
"Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.” Lao Tzu This famous quote was uttered over 2500 years ago and may strike some people as odd that, as a professional futurist, I have chosen to highlight it. My rationale is two-fold. First, as I have said many times before, the chief [...]
Unlearn By Dispelling Old and New Ignorance
July 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In his famous speech at Rice University where he declared that it was America’s intention to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, President Kennedy said “the greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds,” adding that “the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished [...]
