Future Trends -- The End of Ownership

 How will the production process change when we no longer own things, but only use them? A Backlight Lab with Thomas Rau.

We are on the verge of a significant change in behavior. The production model in which people work in order to buy things is coming to an end. We don't want to own things, we want to have access to them and use them. The fun, but not the trouble: ‘Don’t own, enjoy!’ What does this mean for the way products are made, the way we build, for innovation and economic growth? A VPRO Backlight Lab with Thomas Rau, the most radical architect of the Netherlands.
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Coast To Coast AM - February 7, 2015 Deja Vu & Future Trends

Date: 02-07-15 Host: Richard Syrett Guests: James Canton, Marie D. Jones Joining Richard Syrett, futurist James Canton discussed how to become 'future smart.' He illuminated the pivotal forces and global dynamics that everyone must understand today to thrive in a rapidly shifting landscape, including game-changing trends that are coming in business and technology. First hour guest, author Marie Jones, talked about strange cases of constant 'deja vu.' Website(s): globalfuturist.com mariedjones.com Book(s): Future Smart The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World The Déjà vu Enigma

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FUTURE TRENDS - Interactive Dreams, Augmented Reality Contact Lenses, Space Elevator, Robots

Webster's New World Dictionary defines the word, "Inception," as, "the beginning of something, or, the start." While we're in a dream state, can our life be altered? Can thoughts be planted or extracted in our dream state by outside forces?

"Inception," starring, Leonardo DiCaprio, is a superb movie centered on the power of the dream state. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a character named, Cobbs, a thief. Not just an ordinary thief but one quite unique, invading people's dreams to extract information. A futuristic concept of corporate espionage, or is it? Can it be possible to manipulate one's dreams? Leonardo DiCaprio acts as a tortured individual, one on the run because of his specific extraction ability. He must face his most difficult challenge when he's offered a job to plant information in an individual's dream state in order to alter a decision by this individual. It seems dream thought extraction and dream thought plant invasion are complicated and risky to all people involved. I won't divulge the entire plotline, but suffice it to say, "Inception," will leave you thinking long after you leave the theater.

I'm a chronic dreamer, often having multiple dreams a night that I recall the next morning. I can continue a dream the following night like I'm watching a television sitcom, and I've altered the way my dreams were going many times. I've woken up out of my dreams covered in sweat, uncertain of what my reality is. Sometimes I've even felt angry because I didn't want to wake up from my dream, but other times I've screamed in my dream, hoping to wake up. I do have a vivid imagination, so wonder if this is the reason my dreams are so vivid. Am I a candidate for inception?

The idea of the surreal Hollywood blockbuster Inception, where people travel through someone's dreams to 'plant' an idea in his head may not be so out-there after all.

While Google works to bring a polished Glass device to market, wearables startup Innovega is taking head-mounted displays a step further: contact lenses that interact with full HD glasses. ces 2014 ces 2015

Anyone who has ever dreamed up a sci-fi future in which neon interfaces float in front of us and information exists not on screens, but projected onto our eyes, is likely watching the blossoming wearable technology market with great anticipation. With its iOptik system, wearables startup Innovega has sighted in on that futuristic vision, designing special contact lenses that will read the light from projectors fitted to glasses. In doing so, it's inching closer to a product that may rival even Google in its wearable ambition.

Google's Glass wearable has yet to exit its beta "Explorer Program" -- though prescription lenses appear to be on the way -- and still tends to freak people out and keep the critics testing it in the wild apprehensive of wearing it in public settings.

A space elevator is a proposed type of space transportation system.[1] Its main component is a ribbon-like cable (also called a tether) anchored to the surface and extending into space. It is designed to permit vehicle transport along the cable from a planetary surface, such as the Earth's, directly into space or orbit, without the use of large rockets. An Earth-based space elevator would consist of a cable with one end attached to the surface near the equator and the other end in space beyond geostationary orbit (35,800 km altitude). The competing forces of gravity, which is stronger at the lower end, and the outward/upward centrifugal force, which is stronger at the upper end, would result in the cable being held up, under tension, and stationary over a single position on Earth. Once deployed, the tether would be ascended repeatedly by mechanical means to orbit, and descended to return to the surface from orbit.[2]

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Future Trends ~ Mind Blowing Science Fiction Technologies Are Here

Abby Martin talks to BTS producer, Manuel Rapalo, about a few current technologies that only a few decades ago were considered science fiction.

Future Trends ~ The Open Source Solution

As governments and corporations around the world move to make their actions and products ever more opaque, a counter-movement is rallying around the opposite of flag of openness and transparency. Borrowing its metaphor from the programming creed of "open source," this movement is moving beyond the world of bits and bytes to find innovative, collaborative and open solutions to a whole host of problems confronting our everyday lives. Find out more about the open source solution in this week's GRTV Backgrounder.