Your Future Is Now! https://sustainable-future.yourfutureisnow.com/ The transition of the world, by marketing futurist, official Bemer partner and professional speaker Erwin van Lun /design/logo/6erwin_logo.jpg Your Future Is Now! https://sustainable-future.yourfutureisnow.com/ 144 30 Day to day world wide en Erwin van Lun Copyright 2025 2025-03-03T11:14:00+00:00 Thought Experiment for the Future /ww/full/thought_experiment_for_the_future/ /ww/full/thought_experiment_for_the_future/ Humanity is rapidly approaching a pivotal moment—a point of no return. And I am ready to serve. Back in 2004, I predicted the future with striking accuracy: the rise of smartphones, social media as we know it, and generative AI. But I also foresaw what I call the Great Correction—a moment when our systems begin to fail, like an engine running out of oil. Think about it: • The health system • The education system • The financial system • The global governance system • Democracy itself—the system meant to empower people Each of these has a long history, yet they all seem to be reaching their expiration date simultaneously. It’s time for something new. Drastically new. Are we ready? Are we really ready? I invite you to dive into this thought experiment: World Evolution

Humanity is rapidly approaching a pivotal moment—a point of no return. And I am ready to serve.
Back in 2004, I predicted the future with striking accuracy: the rise of smartphones, social media as we know it, and generative AI. But I also foresaw what I call the Great Correction—a moment when our systems begin to fail, like an engine running out of oil.

Think about it:
• The health system
• The education system
• The financial system
• The global governance system
• Democracy itself—the system meant to empower people

Each of these has a long history, yet they all seem to be reaching their expiration date simultaneously.
It’s time for something new. Drastically new.

Are we ready? Are we really ready?
I invite you to dive into this thought experiment:

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]]> 2025-03-03T11:14:00+00:00 ErwinVanLun.com archived, ready for the Future!! /ww/full/erwinvanlun.com_archived_website/ /ww/full/erwinvanlun.com_archived_website/ Almost two years ago, I purchased the domain name 'yourfutureisnow.com'. My intention was whilst keep focussing on the future, I could also serve professionals (either in teams or self-employed) preparing themselves for the future in many aspects: to regain their vitality, to feel (actually to become) younger, tap into their inner creativity they have lost many years ago, and guide them to use their inborn, natural drive to innovate! We have so much potential!!! My new brand 'Your Future Is Now!' doesn't just allow me to inspire organisations through speeches, it also helps me to empower teams with transition programs and to support individuals in their personal growth to create a better future! Before I could introduce a brand new website based on the existing content, I first had to archive the previous one. Today, it's done! After almost two months of hard work, I have created a well-working archived version of ErwinVanLun.com and prepared the content for the future, making me ready for the future, ready for 'Your Future Is Now!'. This site Almost two years ago, I purchased the domain name 'yourfutureisnow.com'. My intention was whilst keep focussing on the future, I could also serve professionals (either in teams or self-employed) preparing themselves for the future in many aspects: to regain their vitality, to feel (actually to become) younger, tap into their inner creativity they have lost many years ago, and guide them to use their inborn, natural drive to innovate! We have so much potential!!! My new brand 'Your Future Is Now!' doesn't just allow me to inspire organisations through speeches, it also helps me to empower teams with transition programs and to support individuals in their personal growth to create a better future!

Before I could introduce a brand new website based on the existing content, I first had to archive the previous one. Today, it's done! After almost two months of hard work, I have created a well-working archived version of ErwinVanLun.com and prepared the content for the future, making me ready for the future, ready for 'Your Future Is Now!'.

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]]> 2019-07-11T12:35:00+00:00 Brands recognizing emotions in passants /ww/full/brands_recognizing_emotions_in_street_passants/ /ww/full/brands_recognizing_emotions_in_street_passants/ Brands can soon start to use technology to read emotions and moods of people passing by their shops or outlets in the street. Media Technology React | Read Vision

]]> 2019-07-01T13:32:00+00:00 Replaced Flash header with animated CSS and Javascript /ww/full/replaced_flash_header_with_animated_css/ /ww/full/replaced_flash_header_with_animated_css/ After another month of hard work, I’ve managed to replace the deprecated Shockwave Flash Header with animated CSS and some javascript support!  This is just another step in revitalising my website. I only started in 2017 with java script and CSS, so I’m pretty happy with the skills I obtained demonstrated in this header. I will now first fix the latest glitches, then archive the website, and from there upgrading the content management system ExpressionEngine to its latest 2.x edition. From there, I’ll introduce a continuous integration/deployment flow (CI/CD) for myself. Once the website is stable, I first move back to Chatbots.org to do the same and introduce a responsive design. This site

After another month of hard work, I’ve managed to replace the deprecated Shockwave Flash Header with animated CSS and some javascript support! 

This is just another step in revitalising my website. I only started in 2017 with java script and CSS, so I’m pretty happy with the skills I obtained demonstrated in this header.

I will now first fix the latest glitches, then archive the website, and from there upgrading the content management system ExpressionEngine to its latest 2.x edition. From there, I’ll introduce a continuous integration/deployment flow (CI/CD) for myself. Once the website is stable, I first move back to Chatbots.org to do the same and introduce a responsive design.

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]]> 2019-05-17T15:42:00+00:00 Live Again in The Cloud with Docker, Git and DigitalOcean /ww/full/live_docker_git_digitalocean/ /ww/full/live_docker_git_digitalocean/ After being away for a while, I've managed to understand every technical bit of this website which eventually has allowed me to bring it UP again! I'm very pleased with that. Hello world, I'm back! . But even more important is that the gained skills allow me to make this website ubercool once more! Below you'll find some explanation on the technology I'm using. This site After being away for a while, I've managed to understand every technical bit of this website which eventually has allowed me to bring it UP again! I'm very pleased with that. Hello world, I'm back! grin. But even more important is that the gained skills allow me to make this website ubercool once more! Below you'll find some explanation on the technology I'm using.

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]]> 2019-04-09T09:18:00+00:00 Come and join me in London, Oct 3th! /ww/full/come-and-join-me-in-london-oct-3th/ /ww/full/come-and-join-me-in-london-oct-3th/ On Tue, Oct 3th, I'll be moderating a panel on the AI and #chatbot conference in London. Why don't you join me? You'll get a 50 GBP discount with this link: yes, I want 50 GBP discount. Hope you see you there! Events yes, I want 50 GBP discount. Hope you see you there!

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]]> 2017-09-21T08:18:00+00:00 Don’t even TRY to relevant in Facebook Messenger! /ww/full/chatbot-relevant-in-facebook-messenger/ /ww/full/chatbot-relevant-in-facebook-messenger/ As you know, I've been working with chatbots since 2005. It has been silent for years but with the introduction of the Facebook #Chatbot platform we've entered another hype. It seems that every innovative company now wants to be in the friend list of a consumers. Well, let me tell you what to take care for. So, I've added quite a few Facebook messenger chatbots in order to test them (they want to be added to the Chatbots.org directory). The first thing these bots do is to start sending. After a few days I can't find the messages of my friends anymore. The first thing I did is to remove them again. What chatbots are really about is to answer questions, to be relevant in time. How can you possibly know when you're relevant as a single brand? You've possible attended many workshops with that theme but the true answer is: you can't. That what we see right now. You can't, you simply can't. Let me explain. Tips 4 Tomorrow, Coaching brands As you know, I've been working with chatbots since 2005. It has been silent for years but with the introduction of the Facebook #Chatbot platform we've entered another hype. It seems that every innovative company now wants to be in the friend list of a consumers. Well, let me tell you what to take care for.

So, I've added quite a few Facebook messenger chatbots in order to test them (they want to be added to the Chatbots.org directory). The first thing these bots do is to start sending. After a few days I can't find the messages of my friends anymore. The first thing I did is to remove them again.

What chatbots are really about is to answer questions, to be relevant in time. How can you possibly know when you're relevant as a single brand? You've possible attended many workshops with that theme but the true answer is: you can't. That what we see right now. You can't, you simply can't. Let me explain.

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]]> 2017-08-11T10:16:00+00:00 Front-End developers meetup is promising for the Future of the World to me. /ww/full/front-end-developers-meetup-is-promising-for-the-future-of-the-world-to-me/ /ww/full/front-end-developers-meetup-is-promising-for-the-future-of-the-world-to-me/ Yesterday eve I attended a so-called 'Front End Developers' meetup. It was such a positive event of young people, it really made me happy that this new generation is shaping to world of tomorrow. Here is a bit more detail: ING (Bank) hosted 300 Front-End developers in their Head Quarters near Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena. This sentence needs some explanation. A front-end developer designs and constructs that part of a complex website (think about Booking.com, Wehkamp.com or ING.com) that you can see. Is typically a male between 25-35 with a beard, but we had about 10% woman and some older guys as well, with or without beard. Why was hosting ING this event? Well, all information dense companies, such as banks, are actually becoming IT-companies. More and more, a large part of their employees are actually IT people making the business more efficient and effective at the very same time. So ING needs people on one hand (so this a good way of getting in touch with them), and want their current employees to be proud at their company at the same time. For me, they succeeded in this event. They really took the opportunity to show the best of their selves. They registration proces was smooth, the security (hey, it's still a bank), was really good organised so we could enter the building with all of us without delay. Beers, good food and an ice cream during the break. A borrel after the talks with the opportunity to play around in the bar and play zone. How cool is that? Lots of employees guiding and helping us through the building. Compliments ING!!! Why did I attend this event? Well, remember I spent a fortune on www.chatbots.org between 2008 and 2012? It now appears I was way to early. Chatbots are HOT these days. So... I've made a decision. I've made a decision to go back in the field. And in order to go back in the field, the website needs to be modernized. As I wrote before I totally dived in Angular 4, a modern front-end technology, and I'm gathering people who would like to help me. This was a certainly a good setting you learn their language, their behaviour, their interest. Soooo much has changed since I left IT back in 2003!. Have you never been to such events? Do you still think most people speak Dutch in the Netherlands, and few excepted? Well, it is actually the other way around. These people come from all over Europe, have studied and worked in other countries. They speak English, that is their language. These Germans, Italians and Greek speak very good English. English is the de-factor new language in Europe. Why learn Dutch? You might go to Spain in a few years from now. Should you learn all languages? I totally understand this new generation! And what really made me happy? Well, the atmosphere was so calm, so open, so co-operative. Speakers shared their creations from their heart, even working for competing companies. Some where speaking just wearing a shirt and a short. How cool is that? They were really one of us. Everyone could be standing there! And for this generation, this is the way to go. There is no other way to co-operate. And now they are developers, but they will unfold themselves as leaders, showing the way to the future for their generation and next generations. If you watch the news today and you see the struggle of the world, please remember that there is very strong new generation coming up and they WILL do things different. When it would up to me, I would totally trusted this generation. So thankful that I could be in your community these hours last evening and probably in the future as well! Media Technology Yesterday eve I attended a so-called 'Front End Developers' meetup. It was such a positive event of young people, it really made me happy that this new generation is shaping to world of tomorrow. Here is a bit more detail:

ING (Bank) hosted 300 Front-End developers in their Head Quarters near Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena. This sentence needs some explanation. A front-end developer designs and constructs that part of a complex website (think about Booking.com, Wehkamp.com or ING.com) that you can see. Is typically a male between 25-35 with a beard, but we had about 10% woman and some older guys as well, with or without beard.

Why was hosting ING this event? Well, all information dense companies, such as banks, are actually becoming IT-companies. More and more, a large part of their employees are actually IT people making the business more efficient and effective at the very same time. So ING needs people on one hand (so this a good way of getting in touch with them), and want their current employees to be proud at their company at the same time. For me, they succeeded in this event. They really took the opportunity to show the best of their selves. They registration proces was smooth, the security (hey, it's still a bank), was really good organised so we could enter the building with all of us without delay. Beers, good food and an ice cream during the break. A borrel after the talks with the opportunity to play around in the bar and play zone. How cool is that? Lots of employees guiding and helping us through the building. Compliments ING!!!

Why did I attend this event? Well, remember I spent a fortune on www.chatbots.org between 2008 and 2012? It now appears I was way to early. Chatbots are HOT these days. So... I've made a decision. I've made a decision to go back in the field. And in order to go back in the field, the website needs to be modernized. As I wrote before I totally dived in Angular 4, a modern front-end technology, and I'm gathering people who would like to help me. This was a certainly a good setting you learn their language, their behaviour, their interest. Soooo much has changed since I left IT back in 2003!.

Have you never been to such events? Do you still think most people speak Dutch in the Netherlands, and few excepted? Well, it is actually the other way around. These people come from all over Europe, have studied and worked in other countries. They speak English, that is their language. These Germans, Italians and Greek speak very good English. English is the de-factor new language in Europe. Why learn Dutch? You might go to Spain in a few years from now. Should you learn all languages? I totally understand this new generation!

And what really made me happy? Well, the atmosphere was so calm, so open, so co-operative. Speakers shared their creations from their heart, even working for competing companies. Some where speaking just wearing a shirt and a short. How cool is that? They were really one of us. Everyone could be standing there! And for this generation, this is the way to go. There is no other way to co-operate. And now they are developers, but they will unfold themselves as leaders, showing the way to the future for their generation and next generations.

If you watch the news today and you see the struggle of the world, please remember that there is very strong new generation coming up and they WILL do things different. When it would up to me, I would totally trusted this generation. So thankful that I could be in your community these hours last evening and probably in the future as well!

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]]> 2017-06-23T07:20:00+00:00 Future of Health: Your Health /ww/full/future-of-health-your-health/ /ww/full/future-of-health-your-health/ Between 2005 and 2011 I've presented my vision on the future during seminars, conferences and conventions. During these days I got many questions like: 'Erwin, will we be like like CyBorgs? Half human, half robot? Will our organs be printed? Do we learn by knowledge 'beaming' in our brains rather than learning from life, from a teacher or from each other? What we will be the role of teleportation in society? What do you think about personalised medicine?. The assumption beyond this questions was that the trend of us getting older combined with the trend that we would be get ill earlier in life. That the horrifying health numbers of today would even get worse. That 1 out of 2 would get cancer. That the costs of diabetes in 2050 will be higher than all other diseases together. That autism will be the new standard for our children. They assumed that we won't learn from what goes wrong in our society. That our smartest scientists won't be able to put their fingers on the essence of human health. During answering those questions I noticed that it is actually quite difficult for me to explain my vision in just a few minutes, that I think the selfhealing ability of humans is so strong that I expect that we'll find a universal accepted methodology for people that keep themselves vital and that we'll create a society that stimulates people to do so. That combination is absolutely essential for a 100% healthy world. In 2017 I will release my new book on the future of health which will be focussed primary on the individual reader. In the upcoming period, people will take back responsibility for their health, and will integrate recovery and maintenance of their mental, emotional and physical health in their lives. We'll use the next decennia to integrate our own insight and experiences in a new health system, supported by the latest universal and yet scientific insight. Over the past months I have been working on the outline of the book, researching by interviews, by sharing and by reading a lot from different angles, and obviously by writing the first chapters. Although I love it, I won't be finished the coming months. To be continued! . Life has just begun. Insight in Life, Me, Consumer, Coaching brands, Health
The assumption beyond this questions was that the trend of us getting older combined with the trend that we would be get ill earlier in life. That the horrifying health numbers of today would even get worse. That 1 out of 2 would get cancer. That the costs of diabetes in 2050 will be higher than all other diseases together. That autism will be the new standard for our children. They assumed that we won't learn from what goes wrong in our society. That our smartest scientists won't be able to put their fingers on the essence of human health.

During answering those questions I noticed that it is actually quite difficult for me to explain my vision in just a few minutes, that I think the selfhealing ability of humans is so strong that I expect that we'll find a universal accepted methodology for people that keep themselves vital and that we'll create a society that stimulates people to do so. That combination is absolutely essential for a 100% healthy world.

In 2017 I will release my new book on the future of health which will be focussed primary on the individual reader. In the upcoming period, people will take back responsibility for their health, and will integrate recovery and maintenance of their mental, emotional and physical health in their lives. We'll use the next decennia to integrate our own insight and experiences in a new health system, supported by the latest universal and yet scientific insight.

Over the past months I have been working on the outline of the book, researching by interviews, by sharing and by reading a lot from different angles, and obviously by writing the first chapters. Although I love it, I won't be finished the coming months. To be continued! grin . Life has just begun.

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]]> 2016-12-30T10:59:00+00:00 Amazon introduces Amazon Echo ‘chatbot named Alexa’ /ww/full/amazon-introduces-amazon-echo-chatbot-named-alexa/ /ww/full/amazon-introduces-amazon-echo-chatbot-named-alexa/ Those who've followed this website during the past years, will acknowledge this is a great break through in the advancement of AI conversation technology in our homes: Amazon introduces Echo, a home devices with a build in chatbot named Alexa, responding to your voice and taking all kinds of commands. User can ask for weather reports, set alarms, create to-do lists, and have it play music all via voice command. Alexa can also be used to shop at Amazon. And Alexa is funny! Brand Evolution, Media Technology chatbot named Alexa, responding to your voice and taking all kinds of commands. User can ask for weather reports, set alarms, create to-do lists, and have it play music all via voice command. Alexa can also be used to shop at Amazon. And Alexa is funny!

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