All Blog Posts (10)

On February 23rd and 24th, the North Fork Development Project hosted a series of small group interviews to identify opportunities for development along the north branch of the Elkhorn River through the City of Norfolk. Interview participants represented a cross section of the Norfolk community, including business and property owners, artists, teenagers, young professionals, tourism representatives, educators and interested community members. Each group responded to the same questions about the r… Continue

New world... are we in a New Era of Leisure now? What will the impacts be on the arts sector..... Are we so "overcommunicated" we have no time for imagination? Continue

Five Ways to Spot a Christmas Locavore
An article highlighting a definition of a Christmas locavore and how you can spot one.
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In July 2008, Dave Baldwin from Ohio, Larry Wenzl from Nebraska, and I spoke at the World Future Society Conference in Washington, D.C., and introduced the concept of using the virtual world, Second Life, as one way to build connections among people interested in seeding transformative ideas for the 21st century. We were very pleased with the response, and have since used Second Life as a key platform to have local citizens begin to imagine a future that is not in their traditional thinking or e… Continue

Please refer to an earlier blog post on the Visioning 2026.com website. Our business is investigating and experimenting with advertising on social network websites. I'm working on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. We are already using Search Engine Optimization techniques and Pay Per Click (Google Adwords) but feel we're missing out on people using the social networking pla… Continue

This is an interesting look at future society => The Venus Project I especially thought resource-based economics is an interesting idea. Continue

Note the historic agreement between Google and book publishing houses: http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/ Looks to me like publishing is finally becoming virtual. Continue

I've been interviewed for "Futuring" a couple of times on our local Indianapolis radio station. You can access the files from their audio archives if you'd like to listen. This is the first time I've ever done this kind of thing. Continue

I wrote this blog post recently and would be interested in comments on these thoughts from our community. http://hyperadvance.com/blog/?p=117 This post stemmed from a question I was asked about the value of 'crowd sourcing.' I believe this move from the division of physical labor to the division of mental labor is our 'current state' and this is a fundamental shift in our world. Continue

Everyone can create their own blog posts and these will display in this location. Any community development topics are welcome. Individuals can also post comments to blog postings. Continue