Futurist Speaker - Thomas Frey

Futurist Speaker - Thomas Frey The Futurist Speaker page is run by Thomas Frey, currently Google's top-ranked futurist speaker and formerly IBM's most award winning engineer.

Author of the 2011 book “Communicating with the Future,” Futurist Speaker Thomas Frey is a powerful visionary who is revolutionizing our thinking about the future. As the Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute, he works closely with his Board of Visionaries to develop original research studies, which enables him to speak on unusual topics, translating trends into unique op

portunities. As part of the celebrity speaking circuit, Tom continually pushes the envelope of understanding, creating fascinating images of the world to come. His keynote talks on futurist topics have captivated people ranging from high level government officials to executives in Fortune 500 companies including NASA, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent Technologies, First Data, Boeing, Capital One, Bell Canada, Visa, Ford Motor Company, Qwest, Allied Signal, Hunter Douglas, Direct TV, International Council of Shopping Centers, National Association of Federal Credit Unions, Times of India, and many more. Because of his work inspiring inventors and other revolutionary thinkers, the Boulder Daily Camera has referred to him as the “Father of Invention”. The Denver Post and Seattle Post Intelligencer have referred to him as the “Dean of Futurists”. Before launching the DaVinci Institute, Tom spent 15 years at IBM as an engineer and designer where he received over 270 awards, more than any other IBM engineer. He is also a past member of the Triple Nine Society (High I.Q. society over 99.9 percentile). Thomas has been featured in hundreds of articles for both national and international publications including New York Times, Huffington Post, Times of India, USA Today, US News and World Report, The Futurist Magazine, Morning Calm (in-flight magazine for Korean Airlines), Skylife (in-flight magazine for Turkish Airlines), ColoradoBiz Magazine, Rocky Mountain News, and many more. He currently writes a weekly “Future Trend Report” newsletter and a weekly column for FuturistSpeaker.com.

When Maintenance Becomes a Subscription: Robotic Services Take OverImagine your home robot never stops humming quietly i...
10/24/2025

When Maintenance Becomes a Subscription: Robotic Services Take Over
Imagine your home robot never stops humming quietly in the corner—cleaning, mowing, patrolling—and you never think about batteries, updates, or repairs again. Instead of buying robots, you'll subscribe to them. Welcome to the era of “robotic services,” where companies deliver, configure, and maintain your helpers so you don’t have to. Ownership fades. What you pay for is uptime, not hardware.
https://www.impactlab.com/2025/10/22/the-rise-of-robotic-services-when-maintenance-becomes-a-subscription/ FuturistSpeaker.com

10 AI Businesses You Can Launch This WeekThe AI entrepreneur boom is here—not for those with vaulted budgets or tech tea...
10/24/2025

10 AI Businesses You Can Launch This Week
The AI entrepreneur boom is here—not for those with vaulted budgets or tech teams, but for anyone with a laptop and curiosity. You can start an AI Content Foundry, launch a Chatbot service, or become an AI-driven market-research studio—all in under two weeks, for under $800, using off-the-shelf tools. The barrier to entry isn't capital anymore—it’s hesitation.
https://www.impactlab.com/2025/10/22/10-ai-businesses-you-can-start-this-week/ FuturistSpeaker.com

The Invisible Guardians: When Your Lamp Post Fights BackImagine walking through a quiet lobby or a park at 2 a.m.—and th...
10/24/2025

The Invisible Guardians: When Your Lamp Post Fights Back
Imagine walking through a quiet lobby or a park at 2 a.m.—and the things around you aren’t just furniture or decoration, but smart guardians silently watching. Lamp posts, planters, even columns become robotic security agents that model dozens of responses without flapping wings or blinking lights. These camouflage bots won’t reassure you—they’ll unsettle you. In the next few years, every built environment could transform into a live, intelligent organism with one mission: protect, monitor, decide. And you’ll never know which object is simply furniture and which one is the sentinel watching you.
https://www.impactlab.com/2025/10/22/the-invisible-guardians-when-your-lamp-post-fights-back/ FuturistSpeaker.com

In July 2017, I ran into my friend Glen Hiemstra, a fellow futurist, at an event hosted by the Association of Profession...
10/23/2025

In July 2017, I ran into my friend Glen Hiemstra, a fellow futurist, at an event hosted by the Association of Professional Futurists in Seattle. Glen always seemed to carry an endless toolbox of future forecasting models—each one sharper than the last. What impressed me most wasn’t just his grasp of the science behind futurism, but how effortlessly he turned uncertainty into insight. Some people predict the future; Glen engineered it.
— Futurist Thomas Frey, FuturistSpeaker.com

The First Killer App for Quantum Computing—Still Waiting in the WingsDespite decades of hype and billions poured into ha...
10/22/2025

The First Killer App for Quantum Computing—Still Waiting in the Wings
Despite decades of hype and billions poured into hardware, quantum computing hasn’t yet found its breakout use case that shifts it from lab curiosity to mainstream platform. The real flash-point lies ahead: whether it will crack open chemistry, topple cryptography, or rewrite optimization—even AI itself. Until then, quantum computers remain powerful tools without a defining story.
https://www.impactlab.com/2025/10/21/the-search-for-quantum-computings-first-killer-app/ FuturistSpeaker.com

The New Frontier of Seed-Stage Funding: AI Is Writing the Checks NowSeed investment isn’t just evolving—it’s being repro...
10/22/2025

The New Frontier of Seed-Stage Funding: AI Is Writing the Checks Now
Seed investment isn’t just evolving—it’s being reprogrammed by artificial intelligence. In 2025, it’s no longer “Does your startup use AI?” but “How deeply does your AI define your business?” Investors are shifting from scattergun bets into fewer, larger checks focused exclusively on ventures where AI scales everything—revenue, reach, automation, insight. Founders no longer just pitch teams and markets; they show trained models, proprietary datasets, and revenue engines built entirely on learning loops. The next billion-dollar startup won’t just ride the wave of AI—it will be the wave.
https://www.impactlab.com/2025/10/21/the-new-frontier-of-seed-stage-funding-how-ai-is-rewriting-the-rules-for-every-industry/ FuturistSpeaker.com

Eight Breakthroughs That Are Quietly Rewiring EverythingIn just the past month alone, eight technologies dropped with th...
10/22/2025

Eight Breakthroughs That Are Quietly Rewiring Everything
In just the past month alone, eight technologies dropped with the potential to reset industries overnight — from atom-thin memory chips reviving Moore’s Law to AI that spins convincing videos from a text prompt. What’s happening isn’t incremental; it’s foundational. Capacities are being scaled, bottlenecks erased, and whole business models quietly replaced. The headline tech might grab attention — but it’s the ripple effects we need to watch.
https://www.impactlab.com/2025/10/21/8-game-changing-technologies-that-just-dropped-and-why-they-matter/ FuturistSpeaker.com

The Rise of the Personal Education Streamer: Learning Live and UnfilteredForget professors in podiums — the new face of ...
10/22/2025

The Rise of the Personal Education Streamer: Learning Live and Unfiltered
Forget professors in podiums — the new face of education is the streamer doing calculus, coding Python, or studying Mandarin live on camera, inviting thousands to learn alongside them in real time. These personal education broadcasters turn vulnerability into authenticity, replace static lectures with communal discovery, and build a global classroom where viewers earn badges, ask questions, and monetize their own growth. In this future, schooling isn’t scheduled—it’s streamed, shared, and socially optimized.
https://www.impactlab.com/2025/10/20/the-rise-of-the-personal-education-streamer-redefining-learning-in-the-digital-age/ FuturistSpeaker.com

Stories That Read You: The End of Fixed NarrativesImagine a story that watches you back—adjusting its characters, timing...
10/22/2025

Stories That Read You: The End of Fixed Narratives
Imagine a story that watches you back—adjusting its characters, timing, and twists in real time based on your expressions, heart rate, and gaze. This isn’t science fiction—it’s the future of storytelling. Within the next few years, books, films, and interactive experiences will evolve individually for each reader or viewer, rendering shared narratives and fixed plots obsolete. The story you experience will be crafted uniquely for you, and no two journeys will ever be the same.
https://www.impactlab.com/2025/10/20/stories-that-read-you-the-end-of-fixed-narratives/ FuturistSpeaker.com

The Million-Drone Sky: When Pixels Take FlightImagine the night sky transformed into a 3-D LED screen so vast it blanket...
10/22/2025

The Million-Drone Sky: When Pixels Take Flight
Imagine the night sky transformed into a 3-D LED screen so vast it blankets entire cities—where micro-drones become individual pixels, weaving light into IMAX-scale imagery that shifts above you like a living billboard. That’s the roadmap for 2030: millions of sub-50 g drones forming a seamless visual canvas across kilometers of airspace, orchestrated by decentralized AI swarms and charging like clockwork from drone ports on city rooftops.
https://www.impactlab.com/2025/10/20/the-million-drone-sky-when-pixels-take-flight/ FuturistSpeaker.com

We’re racing to build machines that can think—yet still struggling to prove we can think wisely ourselves.“We’re creatin...
10/21/2025

We’re racing to build machines that can think—yet still struggling to prove we can think wisely ourselves.

“We’re creating artificial minds to solve problems we lack the natural wisdom to avoid creating in the first place!”
— Futurist Thomas Frey, FuturistSpeaker.com

The paradox of progress: our inventions keep getting smarter, but wisdom isn’t something you can code.

Resurrecting the Dead Through Data: The Dawn of Quantum ArchaeologyImagine a future where death is not a boundary but a ...
10/21/2025

Resurrecting the Dead Through Data: The Dawn of Quantum Archaeology
Imagine a future where death is not a boundary but a data problem. Quantum archaeologists believe that every atom, every photon, and every bit of information about a person still exists—dispersed but recoverable. Using quantum computing, AI reconstruction, and molecular mapping, they aim to reassemble entire individuals from the informational echoes left behind: their DNA, memories, and digital footprints. If successful, the field could obliterate the line between life and afterlife, replacing resurrection myths with a science of reconstruction—where immortality isn’t found in heaven, but in hard drives and quantum fields.
https://www.impactlab.com/2025/10/19/quantum-archaeology-resurrecting-the-dead-through-information/ FuturistSpeaker.com

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