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A note from our VFS Executive Director… The 2024 Western Veterinary Conference broke new ground this week with its "Where Art Meets Science" seminars. These events brought together art and veterinary science as an example of the Western Veterinary Conference's goal of evolving the educational experience. One aspect of the... read more →

From:  Allison Spengler Foster, Executive Director of the Veterinary Future Society I had the pleasure of attending the Kansas City Animal Health Corridor Summit on August 26th and 27th of 2023.  I met incredible industry leaders and innovators in the veterinary industry.  From the opening with Kimberly Young, President of... read more →

As a veterinary futurist, here are my predictions regarding contact lenses… Regardless of vision status, virtually everyone will learn to wear contact lenses.  It will be a step up from earbuds plus wristwatch, but a step down from electrodes implanted in your brain. By then, nanotechnology will allow incorporation into... read more →

I appreciate the (mostly volunteer) efforts of veterinary state examining boards to protect competent veterinarians and the public from veterinary malpractice.  Many boards are now wrestling with wording the post-Covid "Veterinary Client Patient Relationship" (VCPR).  There is a tendency to insert phrases like "in-person" and "hands-on" to differentiate clinical and... read more →

Human communication with a company's robot phone tree has improved over the years, but this video is a chance to peer into the future when a significant portion of veterinary related (and all other) communication will convert to conversations with machine intelligence. In... read more →

Watch this 3 minute video to see how far humans have come in using AI to portray subtle human emotion.  I believe dogs read human faces better than humans do, because humans rely heavily on verbal communication.  This baby could "grow up" to be a dog trainer or veterinarian in... read more →

This week on Memorial Day 2022, Susan and I attended a service to remember our fallen warriors.  The event was excellent, but the highlight for me was the bugler playing “Taps.”  It was the most moving, musical, and emotional solo brass music I have ever heard.  After the service, I... read more →

The first supercomputer (developed by Seymor “see more” Cray) was introduced in 1964.  IBM’s first supercomputer “Deep Blue” first beat world Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.  IBM’s next supercomputer, “Watson” beat 2 Jeopardy champions in 2011 on live TV.  This trend toward machines catching up to human intelligence continues...... read more →