by Senior Futurist Richard Worzel, C.F.A. Cloud computing is now a widespread computing commodity, useful, ubiquitous, and powerful. But Cloud computing is fundamentally a 1970s concept, as it amounts to little more than an adaptation of timesharing, which IBM pushed hard in that era. Moreover, Cloud computing – indeed, any centralized computing network that requires backhauling […] Read more

by futurist Kit Arrow Just about everyone is familiar with the Internet (if you aren’t, how are you reading this?), but the concept of the Internet of Things throws people. One way of looking at it is giving objects the ability to communicate and interact with and through the Internet. A simple example of this is […] Read more

by futurists Richard Worzel & Kit Arrow What kind of a year are we headed into? Well, some things are obvious, like continued conflict between Russia and the West, and the importance of technology. Others are less certain. So, what should you watch for in 2015? What are the unexpected things you might want to […] Read more

by senior futurist Richard Worzel, C.F.A.   “All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad. “You’ve gotta say, ‘I’m a human being, goddammit! My life has value!’ “So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get […] Read more

by senior futurist Richard Worzel, C.F.A. The future of health care in North America is going to be difficult, full of arguments, budget controversies, regrettable patient outcomes, and political interference. Yet, contained within this problematic outlook is a surprising fact: nurses may be in a crucial, pivotal position to affect the health care system for […] Read more

by futurist Kit Arrow 3D printers are a big fad these days. Tech geeks go on and about what they can do with them, and how neat they are, but how close are we to being able to do anything worthwhile with these machines? Furthermore, what will we be able to do with them a […] Read more

by senior futurist, Richard Worzel, C.F.A. A few months ago, I was asked to speak to REBNY – the Real Estate Brokers of New York – about how technology might affect their industry. What follows is an adaptation of my remarks. When dealing with the future. I’ve found that describing the future in technical terms usually […] Read more

by futurist Kit Arrow In my last blog post, I wrote about prosthetics, cybernetics and bionics, and how the state of these systems was not only amazing now, but will be almost impossible to differentiate from flesh-and-blood in two decades. Personally, I think that’s amazing. But most people don’t need prosthetics, so it’s really not […] Read more

by futurist Kit Arrow Two hundred years ago, a significant injury to an extremity meant you would lose it, and have to deal with a rudimentary prosthetic like a peg-leg or hook hand. Fifty years ago, the same injury might not cost you the limb, but if it did, you at least had the option […] Read more