Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter, Dan Wilson, will open PUSH this year, Sunday, June 15, with songs from his most recent album “Free Life,” some classics and, he tells me, maybe a few new songs that we’ll be among the first to hear.
Dan cleared a few days from his demanding tour schedule in order to be with us. We’re in for a big treat - catch a preview here:
Categories: Audio · Culture · PUSH Conference
It used to be that when I spoke about a future in which we’d have mini-manufacturing hubs in the home, that I’d see the audience squirm with discomfort. It just seemed too freaky, too unrelated to life as we know it.
But in this last year I’ve been able to share video clips demonstrating current technologies that “print” products, and seen people’s expressions transform from “Eeeeww!” to “Wow!!” The old saw that “seeing is believing” proves its point once again; the problem is that by the time trends and innovations can be seen, you’ve lost the advantage of anticipating them.
It’s not too late, however, to appreciate the ultimate impact of personal manufacturing hubs on the economy, with it’s potential to disrupt every link of the supply chain, from raw materials to design, production to distribution, inventory to retail and marketing. Watch the following video from Fab@Home, an open-source tool set that allows anyone to download blueprints and instructions to assemble your very own 3-D fabricator, right now. Material cost runs around $2,400.
Desktop fabricators allow users to print 3D objects
Categories: Audio · Economics · Innovation · Science & Technology
There’s been plenty of talk about “change” so far in the 2008 presidential election. Each candidate is pledging to bring some degree of change to government in Washington, D.C. But Americans may have their hearts broken once the winner takes office.
Futurist Cecily Sommers, president of the Push institute in Minneapolis, says Presidents and governments are better equipped to react to changes in society than to actually bring about those changes.
She talked to MPR’s host Tom Crann about why democracy and capitalism don’t necessarily make it easy to create change and why the leaders who do so don’t emerge from government.
St. Paul, Minn. — We consider Thanksgiving as a holiday full of tradition, especially in the foods we eat. But, technology, globalization and food science have changed the way Americans shop for, and prepare, Thanksgiving dinner.
Futurist Cecily Sommers, as the president of the Push Institute in Minneapolis, studies change. MPR’s Tom Crann asked her to look well beyond Thanksgiving dinner, to talk about what the foods of the future may look like.
Categories: Audio · Innovation
St. Paul, Minn. — Next week gifted and prominent scientists will be awarded a Nobel Prize.
The announcements start Monday with the “Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.” The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will then award prizes in Physics and Chemistry on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Nobel Peace Prize comes Thursday, followed by the Nobel Prize in Economics on Friday.
But what do these awards mean 106 years after their creation? And what do they say about the direction of science and society?
We put these questions to futurist Cecily Sommers. She is president of the Minneapolis-based Push institute and she says, if nothing else, the Nobel Prizes remind the world about science.
Categories: Audio · Science & Technology
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