This document contains snippets from Craig Rispin, a business futurist and innovation expert, on various forward-looking topics: predicting technological changes, the speed of information sharing through the internet, companies needing to change faster than the outside world, regenerating body parts in the future, embracing risks like Steve Jobs, and a millimeter-scale computer. The document emphasizes that futurists predicted technologies like smartphones decades ago, information now spreads too fast for most companies, and emerging technologies will continue revolutionizing various industries at an accelerating pace.

1. Know First • Be First • Profit First
Craig Rispin
Business Futurist & Innovation Expert
www.FutureTrendsGroup.com
craig@futuretrendsgroup.com
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4. And futurists predicted this
world we now live in
decades ago...
Read all about it in...
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6. The ClueTrain Manifesto
A powerful global
conversation has begun.
Through the Internet,
people are discovering and
inventing new ways to
share relevant knowledge
with blinding speed.
As a direct result, people
are getting smarter - and
getting smarter faster than
most companies.
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8. Salman Khan - KhanAcademy.com
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9. “If change is
happening on the
outside faster than
on the inside the
end is in sight.”
-Jack Welch
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10. The Case for Foresight:
things might be moving faster
than you think...
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11. Craig Venter Invents the Future...Again
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12. THE FUTURE OF PEOPLE
Ultimate Upgrades
24 Will we be able to regrow body parts, organs in the near future? Scientists are making major breakthroughs right now.
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13. The Case for Innovation:
what Steve Jobs taught me about
embracing risk...
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14. Apple #1 Innovator Globally
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15. iPod Changed Music, iPhones Changed Mobile,
iPods Changed the Media Industry iPhones Ramped Even
Faster iPads Changing its “Siblings” in the Dust
iPad Growth Leaves Computing?
First 3 Quarters Cumulative Unit Shipments, iPod vs. iPhone vs. iPad
16,000
iPad iPhone iPod
14,000
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Global Unit Shipments (000)
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Quarters After Launch
Source: Apple.
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17. Millimetre-Scale Computer
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