Insights March 21st, 2016

Welcome to The Modern Futures Podcast – Ep002: The Future of Exobionic Sports with Inventor Jonathan Tippett with Nikolas Badminton, Futurist.
In this episode Nikolas interviews Engineer and Inventor Jonathan Tippett about the projects that defined the amazing eatART Foundation, his exobionic mech sports robot project PROSTHESIS, and what it takes to redefine the world of sports using kinetically-powered robotics.

Jonathan talks about how the eatART Foundation came into existence and how his childhood dream of building a 2-story high sports robot powered by human kinetic energy is coming into existence (due January 2017).

Be true to yourself, your passion, and be good to those around you and your dream will come true.

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Nikolas Badminton is a world-respected futurist speaker that researches, speaks, and writes about the future of work, how technology is affecting the workplace, how workers are adapting, the sharing economy, and how the world is evolving. He appears at conferences in Canada, USA, UK, and Europe. Email him to book him for your radio, TV show, or conference.

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Nikolas Badminton

Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

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