Professional Futurist / Strategist
Forecast & Outlook: Electric vehicles (EVs) powered by the integration of batteries, hydrogen fuel cells and capacitors, represent an enormous opportunity for re-tooling America’s manufacturing base. The high end of the value chain in automobiles is no longer based on combustion engines or mechanical systems, and has shifted towards electric propulsion, composite materials, energy storage/conversion, [...]
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Before we look at what makes Novozymes a company to watch – it is helpful to understand the market transitions occuring in materials science and engineering that drive all major sectors from food to energy to pharmaceuticals. An Era based Look at Industrialism: Ores, Hydrocarbons & Semiconductors The history of industrialism, and our ability to manipulate [...]
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Forecast & Outlook: The principles of ‘situational awareness’ based on perception, comprehensive and projection might soon support a wide range of applications that reach far beyond military operations and crisis response. It is a user and outcomes-centric systems approach that could integrate anticipated advances in mobility, ‘smart’ infrastructure, learning systems, policy-making and business intelligence. [...]
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Forecast & Outlook: Coal is the world’s fastest growing source of energy and leading fuel source associated with carbon emissions. There is a two-fold path to rethinking our relationship with coal’s carbon molecules based on ‘Cathedral Thinking‘ and ‘Manhattan Project‘ strategies. The end result and legacy we might leave future generations is a new capacity to better [...]
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Forecast & Outlook: The global conversation about the future of transportation will soon shift from a narrow focus on incrementally improving ‘miles per gallon’- to a more substantive and fundamental rethinking of vehicle design and manufacturing based on an era of ‘drive by wire’ control systems, wheel-based electric motors and the integration of batteries, hydrogen fuel cells [...]
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Forecast: Leveraging and supporting India’s ‘demographic dividend’ will soon become the focus of many nations (beyond India) as a driver of economic growth and geopolitical stability in the next fifty years. Having spent nearly two years of my life living in South Asia (Nepal and India), I will admit a favorable (and optimistic) bias towards [...]
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Forecast & Outlook: Our evolving knowledge base and capacity to design molecular manufacturing systems will be a primary driver of social and economic change in the decades ahead. Bioindustrialism and the Nanoscale design of carbon-based structures are two ‘game-changing’ ideas ripe for capital investment and commercial applications. Properly harnessed, carbon bonds are our best eco-friendly [...]
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Hans Rosling takes us on another data-driven journey looking at past, present and future with a special focus on the social and economic re-emergence of India and China in the 21st Century. Direct link to TED Talks Video Recorded at India’s first TED Conference
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Carbon-based nano-materials are on track to becoming a foundation for economic growth for the 21st century. And the United States could be in the driver’s seat of this age of Carbon Capitalism and rethinking of carbon-based Industrialism! Manufacturing Eras: Silicon to Carbon If the 20th century economic revolution of computer-based information technologies was shaped by [...]
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