{"45976":{"#nid":"45976","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Canton Speaks on Education, Technology and Innovation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn conjunction with Georgia Tech\u0027s Strategic Planning Process, global futurist James Canton will speak to the campus community next week. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Tuesday, Oct. 20, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Ferst Center for the Arts, Canton will address \u0022Higher Education, Technology, Innovation, and a Look into the Future,\u0022 followed by a discussion with questions from the audience. There is no cost and all are welcome to attend.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERecognized as a leading authority on future trends, Canton advises the Global Fortune 1000 on innovation, financial services, health care, population, energy, security, and globalization. A renowned author and keynote presenter, his latest book is \u0022The Extreme Future: The Top Trends that Will Reshape the World in the 21st Century.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his book, Canton outlines the 10 major trends of the \u0022extreme future\u0022 \u2014 nanotechnology, alternative energy, innovation and technology and climate change \u2014 many of which are the same disciplines Tech is examining as the Institute charts a course for its next 25 years.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECanton is CEO and chairman for the Institute for Global Futures, a think tank he founded in 1990. Clients include IBM, British Petroleum, Intel, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, and FedEx. In addition to advising three presidential administrations, he also works with the National Science Foundation and MIT\u0027s Media Lab Europe.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Renowned futurist James Canton will speak to  Georgia Tech students, faculty, staff and surrounding community regarding global trends that will shape the next 20 years.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Renowned futurist speaks at Tech."}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2009-10-12 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:09","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"45977":{"id":"45977","type":"image","title":"Global futurist James Canton","body":null,"created":"1449174338","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:25:38","changed":"1475894406","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:06","alt":"Global futurist James Canton","file":{"fid":"190083","name":"tco81298.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tco81298_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tco81298_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":8606,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tco81298_0.jpg?itok=djIpdfn6"}}},"media_ids":["45977"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/vision\/","title":"Georgia Tech Strategic Vision"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.globalfuturist.com\/","title":"Institute for Global Futures"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4453","name":"futurist"},{"id":"6967","name":"Georgia Tech Strategic Planning"},{"id":"6966","name":"James Canton"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EChet Warzynski\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOffice of Organizational Development\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:chet.warzynski@orgdev.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Chet Warzynski\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["chet.warzynski@orgdev.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}