Garry Golden

I just posted on Memebox FutureBlogger about a recent CERA forecast on the potential plateauing of US gasoline demand inthe next 10-15 years - possibly in 2010.
How can demand peak so soon?
Because sustained high energy prices are forcing the auto industry to increase efficiencies and move beyond the combustion engine as we electrify the industry […]

A personal/professional update since this blog has not been an accurate mirror of my freelance work world.
The spring and early summer have been quite fantastic (and busy) with several collaborative projects on the:

future of transportation infrastructure (TxDOT/University of Houston Futures Studies program)
future of financial services (Citigroup/FutureThink)
association leadership in 21st century (ASAE/ UK-based FastFuture)
future of […]

It is easy to set up a blog, but not easy to maintain an accurate web presence that reflects, or better yet - balances, one’s personal interests and professional services.
I have struggled to post on a regular basis, and to make those posts accessible to wider audiences. One of the downsides of working […]

For those readers who are in the New York area, I will be giving a talk on the future of energy this coming Saturday (February 16th)
The ‘Futures Salon’ Meetup(.com) is the local chapter of Futures Salons sponsored by John Smart and the Accelerating Foundation Studies.
Saturday, February 16, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Stone Creek Bar
140 E. 27th […]

An Association of Professional Futurists colleague Kaipo Lum (CEO Vision Foresight Strategy) has turned me back onto presentations by Thomas Barnett - author of the Pentagon’s New Map and Blueprint for Action.
I remembered Barnett’s 2005 TED Conference presentation quite well - but it always struck me as a specific look at the Iraq war […]

Last week Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, spent $8 billion to acquire Navteq, the world’s second largest maker of maps used in car-navigation devices and handhelds.
Is it time for us to reconsider the economic value of maps? Or, better yet, the value created in map-making?!
Read more below…

“The seemingly impossible is possible” - and then watch me shock the audience in the end… Hans Rosling is back!
TED 2007 has released its latest video of Hans Rosling’s (of Gapminder.org) visual journey / talk on global health and economic development. Nearly one year after his web-famous TED 2006 talk which highlighted […]

While ‘user generated’ videos are getting all the buzz today— keep your eye on the digital map-making community and the growth around geolocation services. Someday soon (1-3 years) ‘map-making’ might be the next big thing!
In recent months the NY Times and Wall Street Journal have been running articles about the growing relevance of […]

Watch this clip from the TED Conference of Blaise Aguera y Arcas - Architect of PhotoSynth
Or go directly to: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

I’ve been following Photosynth for a while now… and that demonstration just launched the product into the geek/design world blogosphere. It is buzzing on the web! Blaise and crew are doing […]

Interface is a hot topic in conversations related to the future of technology. The vision is often a world of technologies with more intuitive interfaces that create a more ‘human’ experience for the user.
Go deeper and the vision is to break down the barrier between the physical and digital (virtual) world- setting […]

The Coming Social Space of Video
In less than five years we could see the convergence of a potent combination of digital technologies that could disrupt the video web. There are many ingredients to this mixed reality web – here are a few to consider…

Terahertz chips in desktop computers,
Thin […]

We should remember that web pages, as we know it, are only ten years old – and have been built around first generation web programming languages, network architecture and the dominance of the desktop/laptop web experience. There is no shortage of visions about where the web is headed – but what seems […]

Professional futurists often say that one of the most common mistakes made in forecasting change is to overestimate change in the short term, or underestimate change in the long term. Too often change is hyped in the beginning; and ignored as a real long term disruptive force.
We use a […]

Things are shifting again on the ‘internet’ – the first area deals with the emergence of the ‘geo web’ and location based delivery of information/services; the second shift is the rapid rise of video (which is a mixture of forms of broadcast, user generated content, and using video as a social space itself…) (More […]

Looking down at the Earth – 2015
While delivering a keynote at the University of Wisconsin River Fall’s new University Center I asked a group of 200 students (and 20 staff) if they had ever seen a picture of the planet taken from space. All hands went up. Then I asked […]

More on terahertz…carbon transistors, Google’s ‘geo’ push, video telepresence, online video tools, WiMAX, OLEDs, MEMs, ‘chain link’ clothing (!), ‘black hole’ optical coatings, ultrahydrophobic coatings, etc…

. Intel announces ‘Tera Era’ of computing, improved H2 production from electrolysis, micro-storage systems for DoCoMo, non toxic nanoparticles coatings, OLED/silicon integration, OLED encapsulation alternatives, future related projects with magnetism / sensing systems (Houston, Texas), nanopumps, optical mirrors, etc.

WiMax patents, web-based apps, embedded devices, integrated optical chips, nanowires, telescopic nanotubes, rapid DNA sequencing, nanoparticles delivery, bio-sensors, sea urchin genome sequencing, outsourcing manufacturing to E.coli, nanocatalyst grants, sulphur free fuels, flexible OLEDs…

I just ‘Stumbled upon’ another Google Earth ‘gliding’ interface called M3D Glider (also here) designed by a Netherlands based software firm – Medality (no current link available). This is only a few days after seeing Microsoft Vista’s embedded fly-through feature through Live Search. Thought it was worth a short post on […]

(Older post from Jan. 2007 - could use an update- but I need to migrate all my posts from the old Wordpress first!!)
As the YouTube led video revolution fades as the novel story of this digital age, we can see quite clearly that virtual worlds such as Second Life are ready for their mainstream media […]