Frank+Ogden

Name: Frank Ogden Contact: drtomorrow@shaw.ca Video: [|Preview Ananova and Dr. Tomorrow in our HDTV Quicktime Trailer!] Bio Alvin Toffler coined the phrase "electronic cottage" in the 80's. Futurist Frank Ogden carried the concept further. From his high-tech houseboat in Vancouver harbour, he is wired to the world by computer, phone, cable and phone modems, satellite, infra-red transmissions and CD-ROMs.
 * Futurist Frank Ogden / Dr. Tomorrow:** otherwise known as futurist **Dr. Tomorrow**, says education will change more in the next 10 years than in the last 100.

The Financial Post describes Frank as a "20th Century visionary" and calls his ideas "outrageous", an ideal combination of qualities for a life of profitable nonconformity. From Papua New Guinea to the high-tech jungles of silicon, satellites and photons, Frank has a reputation for innovation and originality.

In 1979, he began monitoring 200 satellites and 2,000 data banks, to provide a video clipping service for forward thinkers wanting information on new and relevant business developments. "Cyber education will move in rapidly because of the vast amount of resources now being gathered and programmed to provide cyber-ed at a fraction of the cost of present methods," he says. "Consider education say, via a private CNN (or others), 24-hour a day satellite-delivered (direct or via cable or DSL) channel carrying almost everything taught today by a teacher."