Visualizing the Future of 2020
View the full size PDF document here or double click on chart at bottom of this page! The following chart and categories were created by Richard Watson author of “The Future: 50 Ideas You Really Need to…
Technology
Knowledge Doubling Every 12 Months, Soon to be Every 12 Hours
Knowledge Doubling Curve Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today…
VC Ready to Drop $200 Million into Google Glass Startups
Marc Andreessen of Netscape fame is ready to bet on Google Glass, in the only way that matters, with boatloads of money. His venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz along with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers…
What Did the Cameras See? Boston Marathon Bombings
Security cameras will likely hold the key to unraveling the bomb attacks in Boston, experts say. Often lambasted as failing to deter crime, security cameras certainly come in handy during the investigation. Video of the…
Advanced Threat Detection, Seeing Everyone and Everything
Oncam Grandeye (OCG) a leading security industry company has developed a technology allowing companies in many industries, especially those needing Security and Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), to intelligently integrate the entire surveillance process to produce…
NASA Capturing an Asteroid, Too Late for Dinosaurs but Might Save You
A number of organizations worldwide are planning to capture asteroids in order to protect the earth, harvest resources and maybe even create a base from which to launch missions to Mars! The first candidate for…
Duck Hunters Save Us From Drone Invasion
The inevitable use of drones to invade our privacy has been stopped short by some unexpected heroes. In a recent interview concerning the impending use of drones, Mayor Bloomberg of New York calmly stated that,…
Got some spare vacation days? How about a trip to Mars
Nuclear fusion, the energy source that fuels the sun and other active stars, could one day propel rockets that allow humans to go to Mars and back in 30 days, researchers say. Fusion-powered rockets promise…
Shedding Light on the Sahara Forest Project
A new Kickstarter campaign “Green Deserts — The Saltwater Revolution” got underway last month to raise $35,000 to fund a new documentary produced and directed by Per Liebeck and his colleagues at Copenhagen Film Company…
The Future is Literally in Your Face, Google Glass
If you were wondering what they would come up with next…this is it Attempting to describe what the Google Glass is in one sentence, or with a catchy new device name, is quickly discovered to…
