Future Technology with Glen Hiemstra

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Toward 2020: Interesting Tech

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Business Week:20 Inventions for Next 10 Years

Ocean-driven hydropower Miniaturized medical devices 3D Printing Even smarter apps for mobile

devices Next-gen biofuels Electric avenues - network of

auto charging stations Truly on-demand

entertainment Nanotech computing Learning to feel the force -

mind control of objects Body power - generating local

electricity based on biology

Smarter crowdsourcing Social media literacy New banking systems from

individual to the top of the global Pop-up businessess Reformed urban transit systems

- featuring shared electric vehicles for last mile

Cure for Alzheimer’s Pop-up housing Super high-speed internet Supercharged batteries -

nanobatteries Cure for cancer

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What Is Your Image Of The Future?

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What Is Your Image Of The Future?

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A Survey from TrendWatching®

Trendwatching.com

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People formerly known as consumers

It’s only just begunBased on Trendwatching.com

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Twitter: Next Thing or Tipping Point to a Meaning-Free Future?

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Lesson 4: Energy and Environment Tipping Points are changing everything

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2008 IEA World Energy Outlook50 mbd additional output needed by 2020

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Solar Future

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Nanotechnology

Not just small things, but things with different properties because of nanoscale

©Konarka Technologies, Technology Review July/August 2004NanoSolar.com

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Nanobatteries

Altairnano

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UCSD: PC of 2015 One Hundred Million Pixels

Connected at 10Gbps

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AORTA Technology Rules

6th Sense

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6th Sense

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Intrago Mobility

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It’s whatProduct or

ServiceKnows

GlobalLearning

Competition

Rapid InnovationTechnology

Convergence

DebtDrag

Knowledge Value Economy

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Three Future Questions

What is Probable?

What is Possible?

What is Preferred?

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Smart Money:Innovations that would change the world?

Nano-solar and nano-batteries at economical level

Wireless nano-paper that delivers all content

Nano-med machines, devicesSingularity-level AIPhysics discovery such as

tapping dark matter or zero point energy

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Paradigm: The way we do things around here

We should move From… We should move To…

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The future is not something that just happens to us. Glen Hiemstra

Futurist.com

The future is something

we do.