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Metatrend #19: Onshoring Manufacturing & Offshoring Labor
What will manufacturing and labor look like in a decade?
February 12, 2023
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Robots: Our New Friends & Colleagues
The robots are coming! For years, Hollywood has warned us about the rise of robots, especially those of the stone-cold killer variety.
August 08, 2021
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3D Printing & the Future of Retail
Forget costly prototypes, traditional textile manufacturing, product recalls, and the like… 3D printing is about to turn the entire retail industry...
November 19, 2020
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WEBINAR: The Next Manufacturing Era with Jim Heppelmann, CEO @ PTC
What is the future of digital manufacturing? What does it have to do with Augmented Reality?
October 14, 2020
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The Three R’s of Regenerative Medicine
Lizards can regrow entire limbs. Flatworms, starfish, and sea cucumbers regrow entire bodies.
June 28, 2020
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20 Metatrends for the Roaring 20s
In the decade ahead, waves of exponential technological advancements are stacking atop one another, eclipsing decades of breakthroughs in scale and...
January 05, 2020
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3D Printing & the Future of Retail
Forget costly prototypes, traditional textile manufacturing, product recalls, and the like…. 3D printing is about to turn the entire retail industry...
December 07, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence & Shopping - A New Retail Era
Artificial Intelligence technology and broadband are eating retail for breakfast. In the first half of 2019, we’ve seen 19 retailer bankruptcies. And...
November 24, 2019
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Pursuing Moonshots: Martine Rothblatt’s Story
You just learned your daughter’s disease gives her less than 5 years to live. How do you react? Would you strive to make her last years the most...
November 21, 2019
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Transforming Sick Care into Healthcare - Part 1
The U.S. healthcare industry is in for a major disruption in the decade ahead.
November 17, 2019
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Hyperloop, Rocket Travel, and Avatars
What’s faster than autonomous vehicles and flying cars?
November 13, 2019
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Gigabit bandwidth EVERYWHERE, ALWAYS
We’re about to connect 8 billion people on the planet, everywhere, all the time, at near zero cost. This is a future of gigabit connection speeds at...
October 30, 2019
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Future of Transport (Part 1): Flying Cars & Aerial Ridesharing
In 2018, for the sixth straight year, Los Angeles earned the dubious honor of being the most gridlocked metropolis in the world, where the average...
October 27, 2019
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The Future of Food: Protein in 2030 (Part 2)
Could a hamburger grown in a lab from Kobe beef stem cells be cheaper, better tasting and healthier for you?
October 20, 2019
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The Future of Food: 3D Printing, Vertical Farming & Materials Science (Part 1)
Food… What we eat, and how we grow it, will be fundamentally transformed in the next decade.
October 13, 2019
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How will AR change your industry?
Augmented Reality (AR) has already exceeded over 2,000 AR apps on over 1.4 billion active iOS devices. Even if on a rudimentary level, the AR...
September 22, 2019
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3D printing everything!
This blog is an excerpt from my next book The Future is Faster Than You Think, co-authored with Steven Kotler, to be released January 28th, 2020.
September 18, 2019
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Abundance Insider: May 10th, 2019
In this week's Abundance Insider: Agile automatons, trillion-sensor energy storage, and 3D-printed "breathing" lungs.
May 10, 2019