This was a very interesting year from this futurist’s point of view. It felt like a year of transition, of new beginnings and of breakthroughs. New and clear trend lines were started in several areas that will continue next year and beyond. Starting next week I will take a predictive look forward to 2007 and […]
The last time a human being walked on the Moon was in 1972. Close to half of the U.S. population has been born since then. It therefore falls to people over the age of 50 to recall the incredible excitement and sense of discovery and adventure that was the NASA Space program up to that […]
One of the trade offs we seem to have accepted during the past 20 years is a loss of privacy. None of us say we approve of that, but we have embraced technology in such a way that a diminished sense of privacy has occurred. The portability of storage and computing, as discussed on this […]
In a post two days ago I suggested that the Wii Video Game console from Nintendo was the clear winner in the new console competition with Sony’s PlayStation 3. I based this on the fact that the Wii was an innovative product that both opened up the gaming space to new participants and was highly […]
In the last ten years, video gaming has gone from being a peripheral social phenomenon for young and teenage boys to a central factor in today’s media and entertainment. Movies based on video games have been produced. TV executives talk about bringing the interactive gaming experience to television programming. Advertisers create games for brand positioning […]
It can be argued that the three most transformative technologies of the last twenty years are the personal computer, the Internet and the cell phone. I have written often in Evolution Shift about the first two, but not of the third, until now. As is often the case, a look into the future first entails […]
The first interactive game we play with infants is ‘peekaboo’. Once they can walk we move on to hide and seek. There is absolutely no one I know that can say that they never played hide and seek. This primitive, universal children’s game is where we often first use our intelligence in three dimensional space […]
This post goes into that age old category of ‘learn something everyday’. As regular readers of this blog know, I believe that we must do everything we can to both find alternative sources of energy and slow down the accelerating global warming trend. One of the key ways to accomplish both of these is through […]
In the post below, we looked at reasons why coffee and caffeine might have become the ‘drug’ of the current decade. In our ‘always on’ culture, the need for a stimulating pick me up is clear. I would now like to explore the other aspects of this new coffee culture, as it is the manifestation […]
We seem to have become much more of a coffee culture than ever before. It is now hard to be in any large city in the United States where there is not an abundance of places to buy coffee. Twenty years ago you could buy coffee in any neighborhood, but it was at a restaurant […]