(((My Swiss Army Knife of the present, the "Cyberknife," is missing the file and saw it used to have. What, geeks no longer need files and saws? What gives?)))
From: Michele Bowman [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:22 PM
Dear friends,
Please accept my apologies for the mass email, but I wanted to take this opportunity to tap into the creative genius of some of the smartest people I know (that would be you!).
Here’s your chance to win an exclusive, unpaid trip to the blogging hall of fame. A friend of mine just excitedly alerted me to the fact that the new version of the Swiss Army Knife now comes with a laser pointer and a USB drive. Being a *professional* futurist , however (not to mention an avid beer and wine drinker) I was already well aware of this fact. Duh.
Anyhow, it led me to think: what will the Swiss Army Knife of the future look like? If the SAK is the epitome of utilitarian technology, a harbinger of social change, what features will it incorporate in 25 or 50 years? What tool(s) could/should it include that will be indispensible in the future? A DNA decoder, perhaps? An identity scanner? Hmmm…
I posed the above question to my colleagues at the Association of Professional Futurists, but then thought that you (and you, and you, and YOU) would also have excellent suggestions; thus this email.
What do you think? Will you play along? All ideas welcome! I’ll compile them (w/ attribution) into a FringeHog blog post (btw, that’s the “blogging hall of fame” part). ;-)
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
aloha, michele
