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In The Future of Futures, a distinguished collection of futurists - all APF members - look at the past, present, and future state of futures practise. Contributors include Wendy Schultz, on the brief history of futures, Andrew Curry on scenarios methods, Noah Raford on crowdsourced & design futures, Richard Slaughter on integral futures, and Riel Miller on futures as a discipline. Other contributions are on the future of the city, Africa's futures, and the rise, and limits, of crowd-sourcing as a futures practice.

"Most small companies can't take advantage of the big trends occurring in the world today, but they can keep an eye out for small ones that they can then translate into new businesses or companies. Thinking small and being imaginative can let entrepreneurs succeed."

A short futuristic film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo. This is our graduation project from Bezaleal academy of arts.

Plus il explore la diffusion de la connaissance par l'entremise de l'Internet et des outils de communication mobile et plus il en est convaincu: John L. Hennessy, président de la prestigieuse université californienne Stanford annonce aujourd'hui rien de moins que la disparition prochaine des salles de classe. Et comme la prédiction vient d'un endroit du globe à l'avant-garde sociale qui, il y a plus de 40 ans, a posé les germes d'une autre révolution, forcément, on écoute. 

A few years ago, no one would have thought peer-to-peer asset sharing would become such a big thing. With the immense popularity of Airbnb and the emergence of thousands of other sharing companies globally, 2012 has quickly become the year of sharing. Most articles on innovation list "sharing" as a game-changing idea or the hot trend to watch. The hitch is, there's nothing new about sharing. Individuals have been finding ways to increase their access to goods and services for some time. You needn't go further than Small Town, USA, for proof. Chances are good you'll find a library, laundromat, and what used to be a video rental store. That's all the sharing economy. For many years, these "classic" forms of sharing were part of everyday life. Individuals relied on public institutions and private corporations to maximize our access to things we couldn't afford or didn't see the value in purchasing ourselves. These organizations provided a formal framework in which to share, assuming the risk of owning the shared assets while enforcing rules and guidelines for participation.

Online learning appears to be a classic disruptive innovation with the potential not just to improve the current model of education delivery, but to transform it. Online learning started by serving students for whom there was no alternative for learning. It got its start in distance-learning environments, outside of a traditional school building, and it started small. In 2000, roughly 45,000 K-12 students took an online course. But by 2010, over 4 million students were participating in some kind of formal online-learning program. The preK-12 online population is now growing by a five-year compound annual growth rate of 43 percent-and that rate is accelerating.

Until recently there were two major workspaces for knowledge work: offices and field work. Communication technologies, economic shifts, and changing corporate attitudes have enabled the rapid rise of home workers. In addition, co-working facilities or what I call the cloud workplace are becoming prominent in providing many of advantages to workers of office work without requiring commuting into a central office. When we think about the future of workspace, given the massive shift to distributed work, the question arises of whether centralized office will still have a reason to exist in the future.

Josh Marinacci says 90% of users will rely on mobile devices, but 10% will still need desktops.

When you think "display of the future," what pops into your head? Is it the hyper-neon displays of Blade Runner or the holograms from Star Wars? The world of digital display always seems to wiggle its way into the bleeding-edge technology of science fiction, but it's not unwarranted.

There's a Twitter account and a Flickr account and also a video up at YouTube - although this doesn't appear to have been embedded in the Canberra 2030 site itself. Despite a few basic usability issues and a little of a 'tickbox' approach, the site represents a real attempt to consult Canberrans in a more interactive way and it is worth a look.

A radio from Neul-or one of several startups working on similar technology-upends this whole system. An adaptive radio doesn't always use the same fixed frequency but checks to see which frequencies around it aren't in use, then borrows empty air for a short-term connection. As devices move around, the connection can shift, too. Collier's loop around Cambridge is a demonstration-part of a trial led by Microsoft (MSFT) and other tech giants-that the idea works technologically. If it works commercially, too, it could change the dynamics of the wireless business.