Youth Futures: Projecting the Roles of Disruptive Technologies, Anticipatory Knowledge, and Continuous Innovation Summary: This session highlights the Global Youth Policy and Leadership Program at the University of Minnesota where faculty and students of all ages (kindergarten through graduate school) crafted scenarios, composed alternative futures, and explored other various futures methodologies. In this session, particular [...]

Presented at the JTET conference this morning: Arthur M. Harkins, Ph.D. (USA) John Moravec, Ph.D. (USA) University of Minnesota Abstract This presentation is concerned with complex subjects, but presents them in ways that audiences can understand and professionally contemplate. The core concept of the paper is “sustainable innovation,” which presumes the necessity for continuous innovation [...]

Date: May 17, 2006 To: All Participants From: Arthur Harkins and John Moravec Subject: Building a “Leapfrog” University: Renovating Undergraduate Education (Version 4.0) “A Noble Quest” (as suggested by Robert Giampietro, retired VP, Target Corp.) A new paradigm founded on the convergence of globalization, the rise of knowledge societies, and accelerating change is emerging. This [...]

The April 2006 issue of Popular Science reports that John Koza’s: 1,000 networked computers don’t just follow a preordained routine. They create, growing new and unexpected designs out of the most basic code. They are computers that innovate, that find solutions not only equal to but better than the best work of expert humans. His [...]

Date:      04 April 2006 To:          All Participants From:     Arthur Harkins and John Moravec Subject: Building a “Leapfrog” University: Renovating Undergraduate Education (Version 3.0) Preface to Version 3.0 A New Paradigm founded on the convergence of globalization, rise of the knowledge society and accelerating change is emerging. The first country to adopt the New Paradigm, bolster it [...]