Preview of Tomorrow

Better Than Recycling Plastic-- Let's Eliminate It.

Roughly one-third of all food produced for human consumption goes to waste, and when we say waste, we don’t just mean it doesn’t get eaten. Even aft…

Detecting Wildfires Before It's Too Late

Wildfires—an ever-growing problem for our ever-growing populations. As the world adds another 1 billion people in the next 15 years, most of them will be livin…

Putting the People in "We are the People"

In the United States alone there are more than  89,000 local governments, and less than 1% of these have populations over one million. Despite this, in the US…

Safer than a taxi, cheaper than an ambulance

Mobility is our ability to move from one place to another—to go about our daily activities, moving from one to the next. It is something many of us take fo…

No more lost packages or excessive carbon emissions

Astonishingly, up to 30% of industrial wood is consumed for the production of shipping pallets & crates! Now, this is a serious issue as it is predi…

Avoid Getting Stuck at Railroad Crossings

Trains often stop traffic at railroad crossings for longer than 5 minutes. When that traffic includes an ambulance, the wait for a train to pass reduces the p…

The Fountain of Youth for Infrastructure

Corrosion, the silent killer, has plagued our infrastructure since the iron age. Today, it's costing us trillions, and preventing innovative technologies such …

Modern comforts come at a high price.

Burning fossil fuels for electricity and heat is the largest single source of global greenhouse gas emissions. Fourdeg is a Service company for heating optimizat…

Increasing Trash Sorting Accuracy to 92%

As stated by the World Bank, in 2011, world cities generated about 1.3 billion tons of solid waste. This volume is expected to increase to 2.2 billion tones by…

Taking Cybersecurity to a New Level

As businesses, governments, and other systems migrate to smart ecosystems, hackers are watching. Infiltron is a proactive, real-time IoT cybersecurity solution that…

Recycling Plastic with a Purpose.

With humans digesting more than 40 pounds of plastic during their lives, this is a problem of more than just trash or pollution. Turning plastic into smart gravel sol…

Cutting your commute time just got easier!

Time is said to be life's most valuable commodity. Yet, we waste so much of it sitting in traffic-- reducing productivity, tipping the scales on work-life ba…

As pipeline infrastructure is aging, associated corrosion costs are skyrocketing, and our access to water is threatened.

In this episode of Preview of Tomorrow,  Mike Lake talks with Solveig Parent &…

Taking the edge off of EV charging station management.

In this episode of Preview of Tomorrow, Mike Lake talks with Lyubov Artemenko about how her company, GO TO-U,  that serves as a platform for elec…

While the water industry is a prime victim of climate change, it is also a source of global carbon emissions.

In this episode of Preview of Tomorrow,  Mike Lake talks with Mike Dixon about how his co…

This solution puts education in the hands of children, literally.

In this episode of Preview of Tomorrow,  Mike Lake talks with Soraya Fouladi about how the COVID19 pandemic as drastically perpetuated…

Plastic doesn't grow on trees, but maybe it could.

In this episode of Preview of Tomorrow, Mike Lake talks with Max Mohammadi about the dire environmental implications of petroleum-based plastics. Max…

The solution to storing solar energy efficiently is the size of a suitcase.

In this episode of Preview of Tomorrow, Mike Lake talks with Jennifer Gallegos about how the common way of storing solar ene…

Optimus is saving the planet again, this time with biodiesel!
In this episode of Preview of Tomorrow, Colin Huwyler, CEO of Optimus Technologies talks with Mike Lake about how his company is retrofitt…

Cleaner data may mean cleaner air.
This episode of Preview of Tomorrow spotlights Antonio Jara, CEO of HOPU, a company engaging citizens and decision makers to guarantee the data at their disposal is …