Each week, Team Shelly Palmer sends me a prompt for this column, focusing on a topical event or idea, which I then explore in regards to the future. This past week, the last week of October 2012, I received no prompt. I hadn’t really expected to. It’s been a hard week on the east coast of America. Hurricane Sandy made a ...
Being “In the Zone”
on 11.1.12
"The zone is a state of mind which is marked by a sense of calmness. In addition, there is a heightened sense of awareness and focus. Actions seem effortless and there is an increased belief that your dreams or goals can become achievable and real. In addition, there is also a sense of deep enjoyment when the person is in ...
A New Digital Model for the Future of Book Publishing
on 10.31.12
As a futurist I speak and write for a living. The spoken word and the written word are the coins of my professional realm. Now think about that, the phrase "written word." Wow how we continue to use legacy phrases! We don't say "typed word" or "dictated word" or "keyboarded word." As a futurist I always reflect on this. ...
To succeed in a startup, you literally need a million dollar personality
on 10.29.12
If you have a startup, ignore the business plan, financial projections, valuations and statistics (for now), and look at yourself: Are you the kind of CEO that investors will want to spend $1 million USD to have coffee or champagne with? The entrepreneurial path is lonely, desperate and poor, and often ends in sadness. ...
The Politics of Prediction
on 10.29.12
We are drowning in data. In this age of analyzing everything from exit, phone and online polls to the sentimentality of Tweets and the Like, we have managed to turn the electoral process into a chess match of data. For the data wonks in the room, we have died and gone to algorithmic heaven. For the rest of the population, ...
This Week in the Future: All the World’s a Screen…
on 10.25.12
The week of October 21, 2012 found TV, radio and the Internet abuzz with screens. Apple launched its not-so-secret iPad mini to a chorus of gushing admiration, or a collective “meh” depending upon which side of the fence you stand. National Public Radio’s Morning Edition embarked a week-long series of daily stories ...
Hispanics’ Leading Role in Location-Based Social Media
on 10.24.12
One area which often surprises me is how Hispanics’ leading role in mobile social marketing is often overlooked or ignored altogether. Ever since the first iPhone was introduced, I’ve witnessed how readily young Hispanics have embraced smartphones. UM’s latest quantitative social media study, Wave 6, continues to ...
This Week in the Future: Thousands and Thousands of Makers
on 10.24.12
Maker culture is moving from a small movement to the mainstream. There is no better proof of this than the attendance figures at the Maker Faire. Created in 2006 as a gathering for the MAKE magazine crowd, the Maker Faire is held in over 20 cities worldwide, with the flagship faire in the Bay Area, which pulls in more than ...
Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO: “Our goal is to be Earth’s Most Customer Centric Company”
on 10.23.12
Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon, oversees technology strategy for Amazon Web Services- the world’s largest provider of web-delivered infrastructure services to developers. In Tel Aviv for this week’s AWS Summit, Werner shares his approach to innovation, biggest strategic mistake and how AWS strives to be “Earth’s ...
Using Google’s 70-20-10 Rule to Manage Your Job Search
on 10.22.12
(This content was originally posted on MENGonline.) I read a great quote from Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin in an old Fortune article: “About 70% try to work on the core efforts of the company… about 20% goes to adjacent areas and expansion, and for the 10%, anything goes.” Google has been ...
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