Audio recording can be found here.

Imagine yourself as an observer in a universe but not part of the universe. This universe contains no created objects or even energy that you can sense. No mater which way you turn or move through this universe, you sense no change. In this universe you would have no perception of space. Any place you were would seem like any other place and you would have no reference betwee… Continue

The Central Texas Chapter of the WFS presented Visioning Epochal Changes on November 17, 2009.

Our meeting will featured two authors—John Petersen and Penny Kelly— who have written provocative books about epochal changes they foresee in the 2020 + 10 year time horizon, and what we can do now to make things better then.

John Petersen is founder and CEO of the Arlington Institute (TAI), a non-profit, future-oriented research instit… Continue

David Talbot, Technology Review

"Open video" could beget the next great wave in Web innovation--if it gets off the ground.

In 2005, Michael Dale and Abram Stern, a pair of grad students in digital media arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, decided it would be fun to make video remixes of speeches in the U.S. Congress. Their goals were artistic; Stern had notions, for example, of editing a Senate floor speech to remove everything but the pronouns. They would be following, loosely,… Continue

Introduction
This webinar, jointly sponsored by Glocal Vantage Inc., presented a summary Marshall McLuhan's work and applied it to understanding the past, present and future. It covered - the medium is the message, hot and cool media, our change from pre-literate to literate to post literate, characteristics of the post literate society, and the four laws of technology. It will close with a discussion of the wave of the future.

The benefits of understanding this approach are that you:

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Introduction
It’s a relatively recent phenomena that an individual can create a video and have it “go viral” in a short time and be seen by hundreds of thousands of people (if not millions). “Go viral” is an analogy to the spread of a disease like human flu. Some of these have been about the future. New technology is making the production of potentially high impact videos possible for anyone. And, the web 2.0 technologies, especially social networks and blogs, can cascade and link the vid… Continue