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Cloning of Mouse - Frozen for 16 years
Futurist Topics - Cloning
Mice have been successfully cloned from another mouse which died 16 years ago, whose intact body was frozen at minus 20 degrees centigrade (1st November 2008). The Japanese research raises questions about whether extinct animals could be cloned from bodies preserved in permafrost, or indeed if a dead person could be "recovered", cloned as a time-warp identical baby twin made from tissue frozen at or before death. Cloning presents huge practical and ethical issues - with major risks to the health of cloned animals (or humans).
Leadership, Motivation, Great Corporate Events
Dr Patrick Dixon - Lectures
What would you say to 4,500 event organisers in Las Vegas? Most conference formats stuck in a late-twentieth century time-warp. Little has changed in the last 10 years - but delegates have shorter attention span and hate boredom. Corporate events can be powerful drivers of business success - but often waste huge amounts of time and energy. So what does a great conference look like, in a world of intense time-pressure, online communities and networks, where attention span is a few seconds and multi-tasking in meetings is normal?
Future of Fund Management and Banks
Futurist Topics - Banking
Urgent ethical questions. Over the last decade I have lectured to thousands of fund managers from many different institutions including banks, responsible for hundreds of billions of actively managed investments, mainly entrusted to them by pension funds. The global economic crisis highlighted a number of fundamental problems within the industry, that had been there for many years, and remain unresolved. Issues such as over-charging, low performance, lack of confidence of fund managers in their own funds. Restoring trust has to be an urgent major priority. Without it, the industry as it is cannot survive. Wat ch keynote at Mercer client event.
Future of Space Travel / Tourism - Video
Futurist Topics - Transport
How Virgin Galactic is taking tourists on trips into space at $200,000 a time. Video of first attempt in new vehicle which will do two trips a day. Dr Patrick Dixon interview of Stephen Attenborough at Google Zeitgeist in 2007. Global warming and evironmental concerns, but heavy demand for these space trips. Space travel is the highest profile part of a major new travel trend: search for experience, especially amongst older wealthy people. Other articles / videos on future of travel, tourism, hotels, aviation and hospitality industries.
The Future of Management - Thinkers 50 Global Ranking - 2005
Dr Patrick Dixon - Patrick Dixon
Search for the world's most influential business thinkers?
Dr Patrick Dixon was ranked as one of the top 20 most influential thinkers alive today, in the Thinkers 50 global executive survey published in 2005. Number One was Michael Porter, followed by Bill Gates.
The Thinkers 50 was developed as a guide to which thinkers and ideas are currently having greatest impact - and which have been consigned to business history.
The Thinkers 50 was originally created by Suntop Media in association with Bloomsbury Publishing. The aim was to answer a simple question:
Who is the most important living management thinker alive today?
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