Projects


Future of Technology  Back to Top

future of technology image The accelerating pace of technology creation and adoption is having considerable influence on both individuals and organizations. There may be an innovation with a greater impact than the Internet in the next fifty years. Potential technologies for revolutionary change include molecular nanotechnology, biotechnology and personalized medicine, synthetic biology, life extension and anti-aging therapies, robotics, artificial intelligence, intelligence augmentation, virtual reality, fabbing, quantum computing and affordable space launch.


Future of Markets and Economy  Back to Top

Commerce image A variety of innovative capital markets have arisen to supplement and extend traditional large institutional capital markets. Ideally, the new markets are quicker and more efficient but they are still coming to equilibrium with pricing risk and return. New markets characteristics may include market power through aggregation, disintermediation of traditional financial institutions, granular capital direction through attribute discovery and expanded sources of and access to financing. The currency may be money, reputation, ideas, social good or any combination of these. New market vehicles:

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Virtual Worlds Data Visualization  Back to Top

3D Stock Charts image Virtual worlds are the next generation of the Internet. The 3D online persistent worlds provide a sense of presence and simultaneous experience in context which is an ideal platform for a wide range of professional, educational and recreational activities.

Streaming data into virtual worlds and making tools for its visual display is an obvious next step. Some examples include virtual NOCs, energy consumption monitoring, weather data, air traffic control data and stock market data. The visual representation of information is becoming increasingly important and possible to execute with a variety of visualization, geospatial and virtual world tools.


Lunarez Google Lunar X Prize Exploratory Team  Back to Top

Lunarez logo image The private sector is becoming increasingly involved in developing improved space launch and transportation solutions for a variety of affordable, fun and useful applications. Lunarez is a multidisciplinary international team assembled to explore participation in the Google Lunar X Prize and other ventures using innovative physical world and metaverse technologies.


Nexus of Biology and Computing  Back to Top

Nexus of biology and computing image Traditional linear computing methodologies are no longer adequate in today's smaller, more complex and more diverse computing environments. Multidisciplinary sciences such as biotechnology, bioengineering, bioinformatics and biomechanics are elucidating the properties and functionality of biological systems. This knowledge is inspiring biologically-based computational methodologies such as parallelism, DNA computing, genetic algorithms, neural networks and quantum computing as potential tools for improved computation.


Open Access Futures Journals  Back to Top

futures journal image Open access publishing has become the norm in science and medicine, and should be in other fields as well, particularly futurism. The Open Access Futures Journals project is seeking to establish an open access pre-print database and journal of futures research articles, convince existing futures journals to be open access via the Directory of Open Access Journals and other websites, and instantiate a futures publishing norm that includes academic papers, webcasts with slides, podcasts and short text summaries.

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