Category: Think Tanks


Emerging Technologies: Leading Minds Within Entire Global Agenda Council Predictions Foresee the Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2012

Filed under: Economics, Education, Future Predictions, Futurology, Think Tanks by futurepredictions — 1 Comment
February 16, 2012

Global Agenda Council

The top 10 emerging technologies for 2012

By: Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies

Sheikh of Dubai and The World Economic Forum

Global Agenda Council

meets the Sheikh of Dubai

Emerging technologies are critical to building a sustainable and resilient future. But without new understanding, tools and capabilities, their safe and successful development is far from guaranteed.

At the Summit on the Global Agenda 2011 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies asked some of the world’s leading minds within the entire GAC Network which technology trends would have the greatest impact on the state of the world in the near future.

Below, the Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies presents the technological trends expected to have major social, economic and environmental impacts worldwide in 2012. They are listed in order of greatest potential to provide solutions to global challenges:


  • 1. Informatics for adding value to information

 

The quantity of information now available to individuals and organizations is unprecedented in human history, and the rate of information generation continues to grow exponentially. Yet, the sheer volume of information is in danger of creating more noise than value, and as a result limiting its effective use. Innovations in how information is organized, mined and processed hold the key to filtering out the noise and using the growing wealth of global information to address emerging challenges.

 

  • 2. Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering

 

The natural world is a testament to the vast potential inherent in the genetic code at the core of all living organisms. Rapid advances in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering are allowing biologists and engineers to tap into this potential in unprecedented ways, enabling the development of new biological processes and organisms that are designed to serve specific purposes – whether converting biomass to chemicals, fuels and materials, producing new therapeutic drugs or protecting the body against harm.

(Photo Source: on Dave Sifry’s camera by the sheik’s photographer)

 

(Con’t) The top 10 emerging technologies for 2012
View full article »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Read More & Comment

International List of Futurology Research Centers as the Top 100 are Listed Here

Filed under: Forecasting, Future, Future News, Futurism, Misc, R&D, R&D Centers, Think Tanks by futurepredictions — Leave a comment
February 2, 2012

THE MEGA LIST OF FUTURE PREDICTION
RESEARCH CENTERS

Organizations · Research Centers · Think Tanks

The trend is clear that the major universities, international R&D centers, corporations R&D centers, governments, military industrial complex R&D centers, and great thinkers have and will continue to focus on “Futures Studies” as an interdisciplinary field, studying yesterday’s and today’s changes, and aggregating and analyzing both lay and professional strategies and opinions with respect to tomorrow. It includes analyzing the sources, patterns, and causes of change and stability in an attempt to develop foresight and to map possible futures. Around the world the field is variously referred to as futures studies, strategic foresight, futuristics, futures thinking or futuring. Futures studies and the sub-discipline strategic foresight are the academic field’s most commonly used terms in the English-speaking world, (Source http://www.wikipedia.org/).

Futurepredictions.com has assembled a current list for easy access of just a few of the leading centers which include:

Get the complete list of nearly 100 top centers:
View full article »

Tags: , , , , , , ,
Read More & Comment

Future Predictions: Welcome To Recorded Future as CEO Christohper Ahlberg Can Predict the Future Using 3 Dimensions – Time, Structure, and Metrics

Filed under: CIA, Future, Future News, Future Predictions, Futurism, Futurology, NSA, People, Think Tanks by futurepredictions — 1 Comment
November 4, 2011

About Recorded Future
Christopher Ahlberg, CEO Of Recorded Future


[Image Via: Source]

Backed by Google Ventures, IA Ventures, and In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies. [Via: businessinsider.com]

“Mission: Record and analyze all that is known about the future, and make it available for analysis. Recorded Future is an early stage company headquartered in the Boston area. We have 20+ employees in various corners of the globe attacking a hard problem – organize the web in a radically new and useful way. The world’s 24×7 media flow is filled with temporal signals, including reports of what’s transpired or statements of what’s expected to come. Recorded Future’s linguistic and statistical algorithms extract time-related information and through temporal reasoning we structure the unstructured. We help users understand relationships between entities and events over time. In doing so, we’ve formed the world’s first temporal analytics engine. Our customers include some of the most advanced financial institutions and leading government agencies in the world. The Recorded Future team includes computer scientists, statisticians, linguists, technical business people with deep domain expertise in areas such as intelligence and quantitative finance. A high proportion of the team holds PhDs and other advanced degrees. Team members have received numerous accolades including the Fulbright scholarship, MIT’s TR100 award, and more. Our leadership has built multiple successful analytics businesses with aggregate annual revenues in the $100′s of millions. We have a great team, a solid track recorded of success, and a great culture.”
[Via: recordedfuture.com]

Big Data for the Future: Unlocking the Predictive Power of the Web

View more documents from Recorded Future

…

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Comment

Future Predictions: Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy Projects Review

Filed under: Energy, Future Predictions, R&D, Think Tanks by futurepredictions — 1 Comment
October 6, 2011

Specifically, ARPA-E was established and charged with the following objectives:

To bring a freshness, excitement, and sense of mission to energy research that will attract many of the U.S.’s best and brightest minds—those of experienced scientists and engineers, and, especially, those of students and young researchers, including persons in the entrepreneurial world;

To focus on creative “out-of-the-box” transformational energy research that industry by itself cannot or will not support due to its high risk but where success would provide dramatic benefits for the nation;

To utilize an ARPA-like organization that is flat, nimble, and sparse, capable of sustaining for long periods of time those projects whose promise remains real, while phasing out programs that do not prove to be as promising as anticipated; and

To create a new tool to bridge the gap between basic energy research and development/industrial innovation.

[Via Source ARPAE]

Tags: ,
Comment

Future Predictions: IBM at USC Predictions for 2050

Filed under: Education, Future, Future Predictions, Think Tanks by futurepredictions — 1 Comment
June 19, 2011


Picture Source “IBM Watson”

“USC School of Cinematic Arts students and alumni and other Hollywood filmmakers met with a few IBM’s top scientists to “Imagine the World in 2050.” The event launched a collaboration between IBM and USC to explore how combining creative vision and insight with science and technology trends might fuel novel solutions to the most pressing problems and opportunities of our time.” More info>>>>:

Tags: , ,
Comment