Happy to do an e-ntroduction -- otherwise he is a very accessible if a member wanted to reach out-- Verne Wheelwright Let me know how the committee receives idea...1
a cautionary tale for futurists
"...in 1860 a group of futurologists was asked to predict how New York City would look in 100 years. They all agreed that by 1960, New York City would not exist because to move the population of that city would have required six million horses, and the manure of six million horses would have created such a problem that the city would have had to have been abandonded!"
Over the last century and a half, science fiction has evolved just as science has evolved. But does this mean there is actually a causal link between futurology and real scientific research? Could science fiction actually determine what technologies humanity ultimately invents? And if so, can this new generation of crowd empowered futurists be the ones who shape our future world?
If the extraterrestrialization of human civilization is consistent with all previous human civilization, then human extraterrestrial civilization will exhibit the civilizational invariants of warfare, social hierarchy, and geographically settled communities
I think our opportunity is to learn how they can personalize the museum experience... remember the data value chain graph-- descriptive to predictive to prescriptive. If we need to learn from another sector= 'Adaptive Learning Platforms' like Knewton and LearnSmart (McGrawHill)--- what are analogs for guiding museum goers?
When we went from a production economy to an information economy, the asset of physical strength was no longer valued. It became a knowledge economy-the single advantage that men have over women, which is strength, was no longer a defining job necessity.
big data can help businesses offer much more precisely tailored products or services through an ever-narrower segmentation of customers
lots of data points in this article