Monthly Archives: April 2008
The Future Grows on Trees: Climate Change, Sustainability, and Tomorrow’s Pulp & Paper Industry
What follows is a summary of a presentation that I made for the international “Pulp and Paper Strategies” conference in Miami, Florida, in mid-February of 2008. In it, I outline the major changes in our society’s use of paper, and … Continue reading
Hi, robot! – revisited
In June of 2000 I wrote an article called “Hi, robot!” (which you can still find on my website) in which I said, among other things, that a robot vacuum cleaner for households would be among the first robots available, … Continue reading
The Second Horseman of the Apocalypse
The credit crisis unfolding in the U.S. is not over, nor have we seen the worst of what may be to come. Indeed, I would argue that we have seen two of the four Horsemen of the (financial) Apocalypse, … Continue reading