Brian David Johnson

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The future is Brian David Johnson’s business. As a futurist at Intel Corporation, his charter is to develop an actionable vision for computing in 2020. His work is called “future casting”—using ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data, and even science fiction to provide Intel with a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. Along with reinventing TV, Johnson has been pioneering development in artificial intelligence, robotics, and using science fiction as a design tool. He speaks and writes extensively about future technologies in articles and scientific papers as well as science fiction short stories and novels (Science Fiction Prototyping: Designing the Future with Science Fiction, Screen Future: The Future of Entertainment Computing and the Devices we Love, Fake Plastic Love, and Nebulous Mechanisms: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories). He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter.

Projects:

Jimmy (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?6875), 3D-printable humanoid robot

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Brian David Johnson on Singularity 1 on 1

Published on Aug 27, 2012

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Imagine your robot today. Design one tomorrow.

Published on Jan 28, 2014


With an open source robot design for 3-D printers, discover how Intel's 21st Century Robot program hopes to increase the growth rate, diversity, and utility of robots by allowing anyone to create and program their own robot.

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Imagine your robot today. Design one tomorrow: Trailer

Published on Jan 30, 2014


Futurist Brian David Johnson discusses the 21st Century robot and the future directions technology may take as science fiction becomes fact.

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In conversation with futurist Brian David Johnson

May 23, 2019


Brian David Johnson is a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and a Futurist and Fellow at Frost & Sullivan.

He also works with governments, trade organisations, and startups to help them envision their future. He has over 30 patents and is the author of a number of books of fiction and nonfiction, including Science Fiction Prototyping; Screen Future: The Future of Entertainment, Computing and the Devices We Love; Humanity and the Machine: What Comes After Greed?; and Vintage Tomorrows: A Historian and a Futurist Journey through Steampunk into the Future of Technology.

His writing has appeared in publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal and Slate to IEEE Computer and Successful Farming, and he appears regularly on Bloomberg TV, PBS, Fox News, and the Discovery Channel. He has directed two feature films, and is an illustrator and commissioned painter.

David recently collaborated with IET Fellow will.i.am on Wizards and Robots, an explosive action-adventure novel where wizards are real, robots from the future are here, and the fate of our world rests in the hands of an unsuspecting teenager.