2 thoughts this time

1. Visualization is the key to making things happen
2. Make it easy for someone to do and it will get done

I expand further upon these two thoughts today




Dr Jane McGonigal's TEDx talk referenced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Z20RVq5dA

morning shadows in Franklin

deep learning implications (audio)

reflections on an article where an AI beat a Go master and what that means for the future of work and jobs that will remain

• The promised link to the article

https://medium.com/basic-income/deep-learning-is-going-to-teach-us-all-the-lesson-of-our-lives-jobs-are-for-machines-7c6442e37a49#.qcz6ofwxh

the telling graphic from the St Louis Federal Reserve Bank

mix the future, things, and why

Let's start with Emma's idea for a short story:



Let's add the idea of "an internet of things"



Let's stir in "starting with Why"



What do you get from this mix?

July 27, 2048

2048? Will we be around then?

What will the world be like then?

Hans Rosling predicts that this is the date at which the Asian market economies will over take the US and UK as dominant. View this recent TED Talk to see his presentation and understand some of the risks to the projection.




Now, what are you going to do to prepare for this day?

The World of Tomorrow (If The Internet Disappeared Today)

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The car future - no oil

If we want to change, change needs to be able to be adopted by users. Users tend to adopt in increments and not in wholes. This is one of the most realistic approaches to a no oil future that includes automobile transportation.

Forget about the hybrid auto -- Shai Agassi says it's electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020. (Recorded at TED2009, February 2009, in Long Beach, California. Duration: 18:06.)

What do you think of this?

The Lost Generation?

It is important to realize that the words we use become us. If you need an example, spend less than two minutes viewing this.



Are you going to be negative or positive today?


Thanks to Joanna Young and Joyful Days for the link

Ominous clouds

Clouds ominous on the horizon this morning in Franklin. The future is in our hands.

What are you going to do today to help make it better?

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Fast Company's Top Jobs for 2007

With my parent hat on, I find and review the outlook provided by Fast Company on the Top Jobs for 2007 with a keen interest. Not that I am looking, but I do have two fine young ladies in college who will be looking soon.

I find it interesting that by my count 7 of the top 10 are design related.

Experience designer, web designer, security systems engineer, urban planners, viral marketers and media promoters, talent agents, and art directors.

(1) Medical researchers, (2) buyers and purchasing agents, and (3) news analysts, reports, and bloggers are the other three in the top ten.

What's that? Bloggers in the top ten. Wowza!

You can read their full listing here. They also have this in a slide show format.

Design certainly is a common item across the seven. I think that communication skills, project management, and internet savvy will also be good skills to have.

What else would you add to the list of skills needed for the future?