Preparing for the Future: Peter Bishop on LIVING SMART with Patricia Gras, Houston PBS

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One of the world's truly able futurists, Dr Peter Bishop, is taken through his paces on the future of technology, health, the economy, energy, education, etc. My favorite image (paraphrasing): 'These days with drugs, it's like Vietnam - we just bomb everything. But with advances in medical biotechnology, drugs will become more like missiles. We'll be able to get them to exactly the target we want, even exactly through the window.'

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'Over the horizon radar' to learn about the future

In this promo video, Peter Diamandis, CEO of the new 'Singularity University (Nasa Ames, Silicon Valley) describes what executives get on their 3-day or 9-day immersion. Essentially it's technology mind-blow: Computing & Networking; AI Robotics; Nanotechnology; Human Machine Interface; Biotechnology and Bio-informatics; and Energy & Environmental Systems.

It feels a lot like the MIT Media Lab's research and education agenda, but boiled down from graduate student years to senior executive days.

Technology is only a part of what drives and blocks the future, and sometimes only a very small part, but for a crash course on in new technologies and how they will transform and disrupt the world, this looks like a fascinating program.