Grasp Your Goal Before Your Feet Hit the Ground! By Jim Bensen

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“Grasp Your Goal Before Your Feet
Hit the Ground!”
Blandin
Foundation
&
Connect
Minnesota
by:
Jim Bensen
Cragun’s...

UNRIVALED
BROADBAND
SPEED
AND THE
FREEDOM
TO CHOOSE
GIGAZONE – GIGABIT FIBER NETWORK
Paul Bunyan Communications is ...

“In the end, it is not the years in your life that count.
“The dogmas of the quiet
past, are inadequate to the
storms o...

Need
another
plan!
You look up and here comes trouble!

Crank Up the “Speedy” Computer!
It is time up upgrade the system!

We are all good at reacting and responding, putting
out fires and crisis management. In addition
organizations large & s...

Tip “Status Quo” on its Head!
You never change things
by fighting the existing
reality.
To change something,
build a ...

What holds us back from creating and
designing a new & exciting future?
Take away the
stump?????
“The inertia of norma...

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly
find out how far it is possible to go!”
T. S. Elliot

A Human Perspective!
“The stupid are
cocksure, while
the intelligent
are full of doubt!”
Bertrand Russell

“In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth,
while the learned will be well prepared to live
in a world tha...

Bucky Fuller!
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist,
inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and
evolutionary ...

Century Focus of “Know-How”
21st
20th
19th
Age of Abstraction
Age of Electricity
Age of Machines
18th Age of Natura...

THE STRAIGHT DOPE
Fighting Ignorance Since 1973
(It’s taking longer than we thought)
Cecil Adams
“World’s smartest hum...

Strangled
by Lack of
Vision!
I try to buy stock in companies that are so wonderful
that an idiot can run them. Because...

FROM!
To…
Toward
Futures Planning!

In 1995 technological breakthroughs in North America arrived once every
17 minutes ….with 10 associated services with eac...

Quantified Knowledge!
2 Miles
Peter Lyman & Hal Varian, University of California, quantified the world’s information
ag...

Dan Burrus,
Burrus Research
When we talk about making machines “smart” we are talking about sensors. They
measure, eval...

Internet
of
Things!
When we truly consider the ramifications of connecting a vast array of data-gathering
sensors, dev...

The Envelope of Change!
It is no longer good enough to be on the leading edge!
Heat!
Pressure!
Ambiguity!
Risk!
Unce...

Moore’s Law …and more!
The number of transistors on integrated circuits
double every 18 months.
--DOUBLING TIMES--
*Ke...

Viewing Personal Time!
1,000,000th Sec
10th Sec. 100th Sec 1,000th Sec
Hours! Minutes! Seconds!
Months Weeks! Days!
G...

How Fast ……..is Really, Really, Really Fast?
Faster!
Faster!
Faster!
+ Nano Second (billion)
+ Pica Second (trillion)...

SPEED…..!
The speed of light is 186,000 feet per second or……..
700,000,000 feet per hour!
OK… so how fast is the speed ...

If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your
headlights work? Steven Wright

Keep Track of….
…”fly by night ideas”!

How to
upgrade
democracy in
the Internet
era!
TED Talk
Pia Mancini, Argentina
October, 2014

SINGULARITY!
The point in time when
current trends may go wildly
off the charts – known as
the “Singularity” – is now ...

Swiss Solar Plane!
A Swiss-made solar plane made a 2 ½ hour flight in Western Switzerland
successfully in preparation fo...

Thoughts about space….
There are approximately
up to 400 billion stars in the
Galaxy of the Milky Way!
There are proje...

This is NOT a HEMI!
Physicists at Berkley labs have constructed what may be the
world’s smallest motor. The synthetic ro...

Narrative
Science!
Your tweets are why the
next Walter Cronkite
will be a robot!
Of all the technology companies disr...

Jet Edge Machining!
“slicing steel with water”
High pressure water, (70,000 psi), with a
corundum crystal orifice, & in...

Synthetic Biology!
By programming cells as if they were computers, synthetic biologists are finding
ways to fabricate me...

A Hand-Held DNA Sequencer
for less than $900!
Oxford Nanopore
Technologies, is entering
the genetic sequencing
race w...

Nano-
Stethoscope!
Listen Carefully!
Our individual cells give off an acoustical
sound as they function within our bod...

Self-Sculpting Sand!
No longer suppressed…. …it can form itself!

Smart Sand! MIT
A programmable matter system is capable of forming shapes and creating objects
through self-disassembly....

Nanotubes!
A nanotube “wire” one sixth the thickness of
a human hair could suspend a fully loaded
semi-trailer!
Fuller...

Programmable Tattoo!

Is Origami
the Secret of Tech?
Professors Demaine & Rus, MIT, & Professor Wood, Harvard, work collaboratively on
foldin...

Aerogels
++ Solid Smoke++
Aerogels are the world’s lightest
solid materials, composed of up to
99.98% air!
Transparen...

Microelectromechanical Systems: MEMS
Tiny machines so small
that they can’t be seen
with the naked eye.
Parts measure ...

MEMS Technology!
A $11.1 billion industry,
estimated to grow 63,000%
by 2017.
There are at least 50 MEMS in most
new ...

Lockheed Martin Announces Breakthrough
on Fusion Energy!
Lockheed Martin reported that they have
made a technological b...

Researchers Flock
to Twitter’s Data!
ill
More than 1,000 applicants are seeking access to its tweet “fire
hose”. About...

Graphene!
Strongest, thinnest, material known to exist!
Conducts heat and electricity better than anything else!
Hardes...

Oculus Rift
Palmer Luckey dreamed of playing video games in simulated 3-D
worlds and designed his first working prototyp...

ENTHUSIASM!
What an essential role enthusiasm plays in our lives!
It is the key ingredient that frees us from the
cramp...

Let your horses run!

I must hurry, for there they go…
and, I am their leader!

“When you are discouraged,
and, feeling a little blue,
take a look at the mighty oak,
and see what a nut can do!”
Adri...

Those who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet
to come, and that they themselves will help bri...

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seem all up hill,
When the funds are low, an...

Thank
You!
Stay Focused!

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