FUTURIST UPDATE: Year’s Best Stories about the Future

Jay OwenTrendspotting

Futurist Update, Year-End Special   This year THE FUTURIST featured the writing of inventor Ray Kurzweil, management futurist Paul Saffo, science fiction author Brenda Cooper, environmentalist and MacAuthur Fellow Lester Brown, nanotechnology pioneer K. Eric Drexler and roboticist and TED fellow Rodney Brooks, among many other of today’s most creative …

Alternative Energy: Wind Farm Energy Innovation in the UK

Jay OwenGreentech

Alternative Energy Wind Farm Energy Innovation in the UK Forecast: Cost Of PV Panels To Drop To $0.36/Watt By 2017 Wind industry declares it’s had enough of anti-wind nonsense Lifesaving Solar Power For Army’s “Firefly” Sniper Detection System Germany Opens Another Hybrid Wind Power Plant MIT’s Mapdwell Project Tracks Sustainable …

TheCrowdCafe weekly: A New Startup Financing Model and the Passionate Voices Behind It | Entrepreneur Magazine

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

TheCrowdCafe weekly • Issue #10 – June 2, 2013 • • Share on Twitter! •  Hey all, Happy Sunday—hope you’re enjoying these last few weekends of Spring. Unfortunately, Summer got impatient here in New York. It’s scorching hot! Anyways, here’s a roundup of this week’s investment crowdfunding news. Give me a shout at j@thecrowdcafe.com if you …

The Annual Conference of the World Future Society July 19-21, 2013 • Chicago Hilton Hotel • Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A

Jay OwenTrendspotting

The Annual Conference of the World Future Society July 19-21, 2013 • Chicago Hilton Hotel • Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. We stand on the verge of a golden age of artificial intelligence (AI). Robots are making their way from the battlefield into our factories, schools, and nursing homes, and onto our roads. …