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Me++

My latest Fast Company column is now up: "Should Creative Workers Use Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs?" (originally entitled "Me++"). We may face a choice between altering our brain chemistries and falling behind in the global economy. And with that altered brain...

Monday Topsight, August 18, 2008

Special Future of War edition: robots, lasers, brain weapons, and a little thing called "strategic thinking." • 174th Robot Wing: The 174th Fighter Wing of the US Air Force has flown its last mission, and has been replaced by an...

Monday Topsight, July 21, 2008

• Green Acres, Now With Penthouse View: Vertical farms finally make the move from cybergreen fantasy to the pages of the New York Times. The logic is seductive: urban towers, filled not with more offices and apartments, but with...

Tuesday Topsight, December 18, 2007

Hey there, folks out there in Internet-land -- do you find these "topsight" posts useful or interesting? I sometimes puzzle over whether the various individual entries would be better off as individual short posts, rather than as a catch-all post....

Weekend Topsight, August 11/12, 2007

"Hey, Jamais, what's up with the lack of blogging? You turning into a slacker or something?" I wish. I could use the sleep. Four big projects for IFTF. Continuation of the Open University project (from home, this time). Prep for...

Must-Know Concepts for the 21st Century

My colleague at IEET, George Dvorsky, posted a list of concept about the future that he sees as vital for people who consider themselves to be intelligent to know and understand. His goal is admirable: too much of what passes...

CMOs

An offhand comment at the Institute for the Future workshop yesterday sent me spiraling off in a new direction. Tom Arnold, Chief Environmental Officer of Terrapass, made reference to "CMOs," and I didn't catch the particular context of that abbreviation...

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