Are there people in your life that you wish you could come back and haunt after you’re dead?

Or a secret love that you’re too embarrassed to declare in this life?

Is there anyone to whom you’d like to confess something, but not until after you’re gone?

Or a loved one to whom you’d like to [more...]

Almost 26 years ago, in a research paper that I wrote about the future of education, I predicted that, in the future, people would connect computers to their brains.

One result would be quantum leaps in many fields, including education, entertainment, medicine, philosophy, arts, psychology and interpersonal communictions.

Regular readers know that, a couple of years ago, researchers finally [more...]

Back in the early 80s, my favorite professor (and my boss for two summers), sent a coworker and me to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Chicago.

Driving from Toledo, Ohio, we stayed overnight in one of the suburbs, in the trailer home of one of our boss’s clients, who wasn’t home at the time.

By day, we roamed the CES, looking for future trends in technology to report back to our boss.

For me, the most memorable future trend was the introduction of a [more...]

A few days ago, I described the methodology that I would follow if I wanted to try to predict the next few years of technology.

in a nutshell, look at what’s currently out there, and think about where it appears to be heading — sort of like aiming a gun ahead of a moving target.

I presume that financial speculators use that same basic methodology to help them decide which new companies to invest in.

And it sure looks to me like [more...]

If I were to sit down and try to make some technology predictions for the next five years, I would probably focus on evolutionary changes.

Evolutionary changes are much easier to predict than revolutionary changes.

Just look at what’s already out there, and think about any realistic changes or improvements to those things that you think most people would like to see.

You might also consider different [more...]

It’s like a scene from a futuristic movie.

You’re having a romantic dinner with your significant other.

You lean across the table…

gaze lovingly into their eyes…

but, along with the look of love, you suddenly notice a [more...]

If you really care about your teeth and gums, you probably do a lot of tasks at least twice every day, to clean and protect them:

Brush them with fluoride toothpaste.

Use an antiseptic mouthwash.

Floss between your teeth. [more...]

“Tick, tick, tick… That’s the sound of your life running out.”

Fans of the TV show, Dexter, probably recognize that line from several Season Five episodes.

Back when I was working on my undergraduate and Masters degrees, my mentor was a man whose father had died of questionable circumstances at a young age.

So my friend had no idea how long his [more...]