Ebeling has since spoken at TED and continuous to develop futuristic entrepreneurial ventures. .
James T. Kirk in writer and producer Gene Roddenberry's futuristic new television venture, Star Trek (1966 69).
Last week Folman won the animation prize at the European film awards for his latest animated venture, The Congress, a futuristic satire of Hollywood.
More recently, Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's former chief technology officer, created Intellectual Ventures, to come up with futuristic technologies and license them widely.
Another venture with Mr. Clooney, the futuristic space drama "Solaris," had a mixed reception.
An example of the dangers and thus the need for research: the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), a futuristic autonomous entity that is part crowdfunding and part venture capital.
Set in 2020, this futuristic retrospective looks back on the building of a set of particular entrepreneurial ventures, gleaned from the many opportunities I see at the end of the first decade of the 21st century.
Futuristic though it may seem, the movement has captured the interest of venture capitalists, whose investments are supporting start-up sensor networking companies like Millennial Net, Crossbow Technology and Ember.
Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson talked up the promise of nanotech, the futuristic manufacture of teensy machines, chips and components at the invisible, submicroscopic level.
The race this year was contested by a fleet of 13 boats, among them the futuristic 88-meter, or 289-foot, Maltese Falcon, built in 2006 for the Silicon-valley venture capitalist Tom Perkins and sold to the hedge fund billionaire Elena Ambrosiadou for an estimated $95 million in 2009.
