With information increasingly distributed in digital media, GCIU members can do very well if they keep learning and adapt to new technologies, futurist Frank Ogden predicted. Ogden, author of "The Last Book You'll Ever Read" and "Navigation in Cyberspace" and consultant to governments and businesses, gave the opening address at the Technological Developments Conference organized by British Columbia 525M.

Click Your Mouse Here For the Complete Story.

Everybody knows Vancouver the Beautiful. It's the first thing outsiders mention when you tell them you live here "Ah," they say knowingly whether they've ever seen it or not, "Vancouver is a beautiful city."

That the rumors are true is good news for the summer tourist market, but this city has come to a curious place in its young history.

It wants to be more than just another pretty face.

It wants to be world class.

Click Your Mouse Here For the Complete Story.

Vancouverites are the luckiest people in the world because they are the first to feel the Asian wave rolling around the world, says the city's most famous futurist, Frank Ogden.

Within three years, 50 percent of the world population will be Asian and of the 20 largest cities on Earth at that time, not one will be in Canada, the United States or Europe.

Click Your Mouse Here For the Complete Story.

With an ability to adapt to change that would be enviable in someone half his age, Ogden has established himself as a futurist with solid credentials and a demonstrable flair for promotion. From his electronics-packed floating headquarters in a Vancouver harbor, he collects global intelligence about emerging technologies via satellite dish, short-wave radio and the Internet. Then he analyzes the information and recycles it into newspaper columns, speeches, CD-ROMs, books and radio sound bites. Not bad for someone born just after World War I whose formal education ended with high school graduation.

Click Your Mouse Here For the Complete Story.

Los Angeles Times
October 1st, 1996

Ogden, a technology fanatic who has been cruising the Internet for 15 years and just installed a satellite car phone, says that not only have the rules changed, but so has the game. He has been warning corporations and labor unions and he still holds most professions for a decade that they are out of date.

Click Your Mouse Here For the Complete Story.

Fifty Plus! - C.A.R.P.

Ogden's mother-lode in cyberspace -- that nebulous world you enter when communicating via computers and the Internet -- revolves around his company, which monitors more than 200 satellite channels and 4,000 of the world's leading data banks. Called 21st Century Media Communications Inc., the company, along with his globe-trotting activities as a consultant and speaker on future trends, provides him with a not-insignificant income of $450,000 (U.S.) each year. Plus there's the books -- The Last Book You'll Ever Read (which, in typical Ogden style, was actually his first book) followed by last year's Navigating in Cyberspace -- both firmly cementing his reputation as a world authority on all things hi-tech.

Click Your Mouse Here For the Complete Story.

Uplink!

Ninty percent of all the goods and services you are going to be interacting with in the year 2006 haven't even been developed yet."

Ogden, an international sought after "virtual" speaker, is one of the greatest campions of the new technology. At a recent conference in Austria, he hang-glided through the Grand Canyon-without ever leaving the convention hall.

Click Your Mouse Here For the Complete Story.