Ogden made a name for himself as the weird and shocking Dr. Tomorrow in the '80s. Unlike Tinari, Ogden's not an academic, and he views his lack of formal credentials as his greatest asset. He learns by doing. He studied voodoo for two years in Haiti, explored (and tried) LSD and other drugs at New Westminster's Hollywood Hospital in the '60s, and has travelled widely, including the plains of the Sahara desert, the jungles of Papua New Guinea and the neon-lit streets of technological Tokyo.

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Jeremy Loome
The Edmonton Sun
Dec 21st, 2005

The year ahead and the coming decades hold the promise of an explosion in useful wireless and computer-based technology. But as a futurist and security exprets note in the last of a four-day series, there will always be someone willing to knock down what other have built up.

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David Finlayson
Edmonton Journal - May 27 2005

EDMONTON - China's doing things the rest of us don't even know about, and unless we change quickly they will streak past us, futurist Frank Ogden says.

"They are speeding ahead in so many areas because they have the ability to get big things done very quickly," the man known as Dr. Tomorrow told the Construction Specifications Canada conference here.

"They're very smart, they think differently from us, and they have no restrictions on anything," said Ogden, an 84-year-old world traveller who lives on a high-tech houseboat in Vancouver.

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CG Executive - Dec 2004

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PrintAction Magazine - Apr 2004

... Over the next 32 hours, as we waited to speak on the phone, Ogden would send another 24 emails, all of them unique execpt for the customary uppercase type. Type usually wraps around a gripping - and often odd image. One arrives in my inbox showing the progress of an artificial island shaped like a palm tree, off the coast of Dubai.

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Health 2003 - News@e-Health

The Future will be filled with chaos, panic, and golden opportunity, says renowned Canadian futurist Frank Ogden, better known as "Dr. Tomorrow." Those who survive the accelerating pace of life on earth will not be those who are the strongerst or most intelligent, but thoese who are most adaptable to change, he said. Health care will be no exeption.

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The Independent Times- February 2003

"It's not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one most adaptable to change."-Charles Darwin.

We were up to our anxiety-ridden necks in cutbacks, layoffs, medical system upheavals, threats of war and uncertain futures. Was tomorrow just going to bring more of the same? We needed something more than morning coffee to coax us out of bed. It was time for a fix. We put the word out on the street and waited.
Sure enough, the same name kept popping up and it wasn’t long before our sources had us convinced that there was only one man who held the formula.
We needed a cure and Dr. Tomorrow® had the medicine. We set out to find him. He was not hiding and it did not take Sherlock skill to track him down on his floating Cyberden in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour. Publisher, Kasey Gordon, and I drop in for a fifteen-minute visit.

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January 2003

As Not deterred by age — he is in his seventies — Dr. Tomorrow embraces the advantages of what medicine, computers, and technology will bring. Although I do not always agree with his assertion, he is one of the most interesting visionaries I’ve met. One thing is for sure: Dr. Tomorrow will always keep his cyborg eyes clearly aimed at the future.

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Aug 9th, 2002

As As much as the folks at Fuji may cringe, thje ultimate test of consumer technology is giving a product to your two-year-old child to see if they can use it.  Fuji will be happy to hear that their FinePix F601 Zoom digital camera passed the test with flying colors. Within minutes, my daughter, Isabel, was gleefully snapping pictures using the F601's user-friendly LCD color monitor and point-and-click capability.  In fact, the only problem was convincing her to give the camera back -- no small task for anyone dealing with a child in the midst of their "Terrible Twos".

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Frank   Ogden   once claimed that a machine was destroying his sex life. Today, he uses technology to get a rise out of people throughout the world.

As I enter the gate to the marina in Coal Harbour this Friday morning, I am greeted by a man who has obviously spent a good portion of his life seduced into dark rooms by virginal techno gadgets. He leads me towards his "floating electronic cottage," that at first blush appears to be in the shape of a whale. It is here that Dr. Tomorrow navigates the world in search of the latest technological advancements; information and products that will cause patrons of his lectures and viewers of his Internet show to reel back on their heels in shock, disgust, or thrill at the thought of how the world around them is likely to completely change within a few short years.

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The Real Estate Weekly has asked the renowned futurist Frank Ogden of Vancouver, known internationally as Dr. Tomorrow, to comment on the house of the future.

"The homes we live in tomorrow will be better-built, stronger, and will contain more robotic features, making them more adaptable for our changing lifestyles and do-it-yourself owners.

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Frank Ogden and Hollywood Hospital
Long before Timothy Leary and the Summer of Love, patients at Hollywood Hospital in New Westminister were being treated with LSD. Ross Crockford connects the microdots.

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Saskatchewan wasn't the only place in western Canada where doctors did psychotherapy with LSD in the '50s and '60s. Another was New Westminster, at B.C.'s aptly named Hollywood Hospital -- where many big music and movie stars tuned in, turned on, and dropped 400 microgram doses of mind-expanding Sandoz acid.

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Canadian transporters who previously did say three trips per rig between Canada and America per day, will now be reduced to one trip a day due to the border delays. This is sure to have an adverse impact on the economies of both countries and particularly on manufacturing concerns which have built their processes around the Just-In-time concept of manufacture. Is there a way out?

"Yes," says Dr Frank Ogden, a renowned Futurist who lives in a world most of us are still heading towards. Widely known as Dr Tomorrow, Ogden is often described as a controversial and eccentric genius. He has given over 700 talks around the world to governments, corporations and wealthy individuals.

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A revolution is taking place in photography; a revolution that is shaking the very foundation of chemical based imaging.

Photography is evolving into a digital technology where virtually anything is possible in the electronic format. Computer screens are palettes for the new generation of artists. A tiny camera chip the size of a postage stamp can hold hundreds of high resolution images and a pocket hard drive the size of a cell phone can hold thousands. Digital images can be stored on CD-ROMs or DVDs and cataloged on retrieval software.  

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"Dave, you hit the right button. This is the guy. This is the plane. A Mooney M18 "Scotsman". I was the Canadian distributor for years.... It took place out of the Toronto Island Airport on the 12th of October 1953. The record has never been broken. Mainly, I suspect because most pilots are sensible enough to want 20- 30 gallons of gas left in the tanks to get back. I flew up until I ran out of gas and glided back to the same airport. With that plane that was not a problem.... Frank."  

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No one ever said painting a clear picture of the future of education would be easy. But we're going to try. For this 50th edition of nextSteps we contacted several people and resources to try and shed some light on where education is headed in the next five to 10 years.  

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Maffin and Vancouver futurist Frank Ogden agree the Net is set for some amazing advances, particularly in the area of sensory technology.  

Maffin thinks many of thee advances will be "creepy and pointless" with only niche applications.  

The overwhelming use of the Net over thenext five years will be for e-mail and messaging, the same as it is today, says Maffin.  

Ogden believes the ride hasn't even really begun yet, but admits he doesn't know where the future developments might take the web.  

"I can safely say the next few years will see an ongoing technogical revolution that will transform and greatly enhance the current system."  

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Many cruise-ship travellers today, espeially those on the top-of-the-line ships, are looking for more than merely being pampered, eating the best variety of food in the world and finding ample sun, sea, sky, and soft adventure. 

Exotic ports along with triple pools, New York-style floor shows and 24-hour-a-day dining have been added. Now the are starting to offer something else: food for the brain. 

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During the period from 1989 to 1991 I conceived and wrote what I call Ogden's Laws of "Lessons from the Future", a collection of some 40 truths and maxims I believe describe influences upon life and work in the future. These laws are a work in progress and were created as much to provoke as to inform businesses, governments and individuals. Upon reflection, many of them take on a particular verity when read in the context of health care.

Law #12: The new 3 R's are RAM, ROM, & Run. The next lesson will be the three C's: Conflict, Crisis, and Change.

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Today's hottest market? The so-called B2B and e-commerce. Business over the global internet. The U.S. market is buzzing but mature in many fields beyond the Net. Their urge to 'go global' becomes more pressing.

How to get Canadians to buy their productions over the Internet?

A U.S. manufacturer with a 300-million people market is making good money. Do they really need more profit when acquiring a larger market share can make them more money even if they sell at par and on the surface make no profit? Yes.

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Decoding how brain stores information would revolutionize forensic police work.

In criminal trials of the future, juries may find out whodunit by tapping into the memories of victims, even when those victims are dead, according to futurists advising the British government.

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Renowned Vancouver futurist Frank Ogden was just a little ahead of his time in 1993 when he wrote The Last Book You'll Ever Read.

Today he holds the virtual book he envisioned then and it's slated to reach store shelves in time for Christmas.

"The old concept was to stuff a book into a computer," said Ogden, who was commissioned to evaluate a prototype of the Everybook, an electronic book reader developed by the Pennsylvania-based Everybook Inc.

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  Frank's better known as Dr. Tomorrow, the name you'll see on his business card-unique because it carries a full-color photo of his brain scan. (You can see the scan.) He's Canada's most well known futurist, and for 20 years he has been astonishing, horrifying, amusing and enraging people all over the world with his unique blend of outrageous predictions, puckish one-liners ("Stop worrying about the forests. They have found new friends in technology") and plain old showbiz smarts. A sample of his provocative-and sometimes cheerfully mordant-prognostications can be found at drtomorrow.com

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  When will the dawn break on the heralded new age of powerful genetically based medical treatments? That answer remains far from clear amid a public disagreement between rivals in the race to find the means for that radical revolution in health care. A U.S. company, Celera Genomics of Rockville, Md., saw its share price soar in early April when it proclaimed itself the first to complete the "gene sequencing plan" of a human being. That, experts explained, was the equivalent of finding all the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle within a three-billion-unit code representing the human genetic endowment, or genome.

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Traditional publishers pay 10 to 15 per cent, while e-publishers typically pay in the 50-per-cent range.  Vancouver futurist Frank Ogden has been offering his books over the Internet for four years. 

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  Vancouver, B.C. - In what may be the first human attempt to trademark personal DNA, a Canadian has formally filed an application with the United States Trademark and Patent office. On the eve of the four-day Human Genome Project 2000 meeting held in Vancouver, futurist Frank Ogden raised the controversial question about ownership of DNA.

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      "It's not the strongest of the species that survives, or the most intelligent. It is the one most adaptable to change." When Charles Darwin published those words in his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, he turned contemporary beliefs and values upside down. His theory forced people to think about their world in a different light for the first time, challenging them to accept the idea that humans must adapt to a changing environment to survive.

     The controversy that began over 100 years ago continues to this day. A modem day "Darwin" has taken up where the original left off, utilizing Darwin's premise in a new way. This modem day visionary is Frank Ogden— also known as Dr. Tomorrow to those who follow him on the internet or through his many hooks—a Canadian futurist whose research into the world's social, business, and technological trends forms the basis for some pretty far-reaching ideas.

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A digitized beep emanating from the monitor of my PC notifies me of an incoming call. I double-click to answer and the image of a wrinkled face with sharp eyes fills the screen. "Greetings! Frank Ogden here, can we meet to update data today?" He asks to meet at beat 249 on Swatch time, a global clock system comprised of 1000 beats per day and devoid of time zones. I agree, and hope he doesn't notice my bed-head. I say my farewells and close the call. Clicking on the morning Web news, the screen breaks into a multitude of moving icons. I select four stations and watch the televised shows with disinterest. Downstairs, my mate, the latest android companion model on the market, prepares my breakfast. I remind myself to reprogram his emotional output, which has verged on manic depressive due to the last Feelings software installed in his system. After eating, I step into a business suit containing meridians able to tap the body's natural electrical pulses, powering the suit's computer and communicator.

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Im Hafen von Vancouver liegt das Cyber-Hausboot von Dr. Tomorrow alias Frank Ogden vor Anker. Hier denkt der 78-jährige über die Zukunft nach. Und kommt zu interessanten Voraussagen. Wie sieht Dr. Tomorrow den Menschen der Zukunft? Schlechte Nachricht für die Männer unter uns: Herrschendes Geschlecht der Zukunft könnte die Frau sein. Wenn es die Trennung zwischen Mann und Frau überhaupt noch gibt. Denn die Zukunft gehört nach Ansicht des Herrn Doktor den Hermaphroditen, also Menschen mit weiblichen sowie männlichen Geschlechtsorganen. Solche zweigeschlechtlichen Wesen könnten bald geklont werden.

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Frank Ogden, més conegut com el Doctor Tomorrow, és un canadenc que passa temporades en terres pollencines. Ell és futuròleg. Sovint la imatge que tenim d'un futuròleg és la típica d'una pellícula, on surt un home que endevina el futur mirant a través d'una bolla de vidre. Idò no. Com explica el Sr. Ogden, al manco ell, el seu treball es basa en la investigació, en 1'anàlisi de la informació, en la interpretació de nous corrents socials i económics, en veure com s'investiga en el món cientffíc i com apareixen nous productes amb tecnologia ultramoderna. És amb tota aquesta informació i la seva anàlisi com s'intenta predir el futur.

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Let's say a couple of people, as they sat by a candle's flickering light around their cabbage and mead, decided to play-a game of "Pretend" fully one thousand years ago. And lets say they decided to make believe it was 2000.

Now, you must remember that Loif Eriksson, the Norse explorer, is just about to sail a boat staffed with Vikings upon a North American shore. And that .. a remarkable invention called the "horse shoe" is on the verge of making travel a whole lot easier over the world's rutted roads. And that human sacrifice is passing for old-time religion in South and Central America. And that 80 percent of most folks will travel fewer than 20 miles from the huts in which they'll be born over the course of their lifetimes.

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-Why the garden of the future may grow on your head. .

 "We now have the ability to transfer genes not only between humans and animals, but also between plants and animals," said Mr. Ogden, pointing to the example of genetically engineered canola that can be grown even in areas with early frost because it contains an "anti-freeze" gene transferred from the Atlantic flounder. 

Can the bodies of real humans rival the Jolly Green Giant as sources of food? Anything is possible,says futurist Frank Ogden.

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-The World Ends Today - not with a bang or a whimper, but with the King of Terror on top.

 Given the weather British Columbians have experienced of late, it's not hard to believe the end of the world is nigh. 

Throw in the prophecies of Nostradamus and you may never set foot outside the basement again. 

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2000 and Beyond - Now It's P.E.I's Turn In The Sun

 Futurist says Confederation Bridge’s easy access to the mainland, combined with a deliberate reduction in our taxation rates, could provide Prince Edward Island with a much stronger economy as we enter the new century.

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-News from the North..

 It was over a decade ago when Frank Ogden – also known as "Dr. Tomorrow" in his native North America – predicted that by the turn of the millennium, up to 50% of television would be created by so called amateurs. 

Five years ago Frank suggested that the 500-channel universe of TV broadcasting would explosively morph into a billion channel alternate universe. 

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-Full Stream Ahead

 It's tucked away in a warehouse down a dead-end street in Burnaby, but Hugh Dobbie's DENtv broadcasts around the world. 

In downtown, Vancouver's Coal Harbour futurist Frank Ogden runs his global television show from his houseboat. 

Dobbie and Ogden are among the early adopters of a streaming media - a technology that facilitates the sending of audio and video across the Internet. By doing so, it takes television and radio production from the realm of huge networks and multi-million dollar budgets and puts it online at a fraction of the cost. 

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The Future, like any other destination, is just the goal.  The real experience is in the journey.  Never mind the next 500 years, the next century, next decade, next year.  Even next week is going to be, as the Chinese say, an interesting time.  Still, it's not hard  to speculate. 

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You can't miss the sign. 

It's right across from the front door when you board the houseboat, next to the Fijian war-club and Asson, the voodoo snake god. 

Ignore the walls covered with high-tech equipment, the giant video monitors, the photos of exotic lands. 

It's the sign that matters.

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Wie sieht der Mensch der Zukunft aus? Vielleicht wird der Mann nicht das herrschende Geschlecht der Zukunft sein, deshalb sollte die Frage besser lauten: „Wie sieht die Frau der Zukunft aus?"

Die Dampfwalze des Wandels rollt gerade über unseren Planeten und wird Veränderungen mit sich bringen, wie wir sie uns nie hätten träumen lassen. Die Überlegung zur zukünftigen Geschlechterdominanz ist da nur eine von vielen. Andere Möglichkeiten?

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