Category: Featured
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Smile: the humanizing power of technology
Recently, Listerine commissioned the creation of an app that allows the blind to “see” a smile. This is an example of how technology amplifies our humanity. And this is just the beginning. What might a future in which technology makes us more human look like?
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The Future of Getting Around
What if, rather than a dark and dystopian Bladerunner style urban future, the future were greener, healthier, brighter?
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Fish populations change as ocean waters warm
Marine ecosystems are changing as ocean temperatures rise according to Global Change Biology. Remember, when thinking about the future, it’s not what happens, but what happens because of what happens. One example of “what happens because of what happens” is the overfishing of marlin and shark off of the California coast. That is what happened. What […]
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The Culture of Blur
According to the Washington Post, On April 15, 2015, Sweden will add a gender-neutral pronoun to its official dictionary . That pronoun is “hen.” It turns out that the Swedish pronoun for males is “han” and for females is “hon.” So, while it’s unfortunate that it sounds like the english word for a female chicken, […]
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Two Major Shifts: Dematerialization and On-demand
Last year I led a session on the Future of Education for the Orlando extension of Asbury Seminary. We discussed two major cultural/technological shifts- Dematerialization and On-Demand- and their implications for education over the next few decades. What are the implications of these same shifts for the mission of your business, organization, or church? DEMATERIALIZATION […]
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Retro Posters about Future Vacation Possibilities
Download the posters from JPL. My friend, Joby Harris, created some beautiful posters for NASA to mark the discovery of habitable worlds. From the CNN source: These posters mark the discovery of potentially habitable worlds. “Rendered in the retro style of classic travel billboards of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s, the posters depict these distant […]
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The Saddest Trend of 2015
My friend, Greg, sent me an article from a UK News Source, The Telegraph, titled, The Saddest trend of 2015. The article is about the growing popularity of the technology of “mindfulness.” The practice of mindfulness, rooted in Buddhist meditative practice and now a phone app, was so popular in 2014 that it was, in […]
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Makers of Fire by Alex McManus
Thanks to missional maven, Alan Hirsch, global peacemaker, Bob Roberts, and professional futurist, Jay Gary, for their kind words featured in the Makers of Fire Video Trailer below. Thanks to those of you who’ve purchased my book — now available on Amazon amzn.to/1rjTqzJ — or have emailed me encouraging notes. Thanks!
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What does it mean to lead from the future?
How important is it to develop the skill of leading from the future? Well, first of all, what does it mean to lead from the future? It means developing a clear picture of the future one prefers cultivating the action-mindset to create it calling on others to join you An essential aspect of this skill […]
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Three Aspects of 21st Century Leadership
Leadership in the 21st century has three aspects: Fearlessly DEFINING Reality Mindfully DISCERNING the Meaning in the Mix Creatively DISCOVERING New Paths Forward In my new book, Makers of Fire, I layer this TRIAD of defining, discerning, and discovering on two others. The triangle of combustion and the triangle of social change. DEFINING | […]
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