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Imagining a World of Sustainable Abundance

Today  is January 29, 2055.   It’s a crisp sunny afternoon in Asheville North Carolina where we’re gathered at the home of Miguel Jose Rodriguez. Miguel turns 100 years old today. He’s sitting right over there. I  know you can’t believe this spry looking gentlemen wearing a crisply ironed guayabera and sipping a locally produced beer [...]

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Where Did Tomorrow go?

Oh, how we used to love the future. We dreamed of flying cars, back yard nuclear reactors and even colonies in space.  It was all going to be just so wonderful, we could hardly wait for tomorrow to get here. So what happened? Why did we fall out of love with the opportunities that were [...]

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The Problem with Prediction

The topic of using analytics to predict future events has been generating a lot of buzz lately.  Much of the current excitement was caused by Google’s announcement that it was buying start-up Recorded Future, whose Temporal Analytics Engine will make it possible for you to “visualize the future.”   It seems that Google not only will [...]

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