Visualizing a home improvement project in a Lowe’s Holoroom
Scenario planning has been around for a half century. Royal Dutch Shell used it to foresee and react to the oil crisis of the early 1970s — and still uses it. Futurist Brian David Johnson added science fiction to the scenario-planning formula, helping Intel predict future applications of its…
The incoming Trump administration and the oil and gas industry like to talk about the burdens of environmental red tape. But in Deloitte’s “reality check” of the top six issues facing the oil and gas industry in 2015, regulatory burden is absent. These are mostly big companies for whom compliance is a part of doing business…
An old friend of mine touched base a couple of months back, wondering if I'd like to do some writing for Brain Bar Budapest. My first question was: for Brain-what?
As freelancers tend to do, I said yes. They were looking for blog posts about the festival's speakers - quick hits, mostly: some background, an interview,…
No less a business giant than Henry Ford was for the $15 movement (inflation adjusted) Photo Courtesy PBS.
While I'm personally all for a $15 minimum wage (economic theory be damned), I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about it. But just now, I was chaining away, mentally speaking, and came upon an interesting comparison.
The initial…
Google's driverless, autonomous vehicles portend a radical chance in how we get around. (courtesy Google)
AVs (not audiovisual, but rather autonomous vehicles) are poised to change the developed world. It seems that about everyone who looks at transportation comes to the same conclusion. It takes a bit of explaining as to why, and a recent piece I wrote for…