“Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment… Humanity is in a final exam as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in the Universe.” – R. Buckminster Fuller, Utopia or Oblivion Fuller wrote this back in 1969, an incredibly […]
Go for a drive of any length through any urban or suburban neighborhood and the signs are everywhere: “Hiring!” “Now hiring!” “Jobs available” I am sure most readers have had this same experience in the last 45 days. Now that the states are opening up, it seems like every company is looking for employees. The […]
Congratulations Sir Richard Branson on your first flight into space, on your own spacecraft! It was a childhood dream made real. That seemed to be your key message to those on earth; that if someone from the boomer generation could go from childhood cardboard to the creation of private space travel, what can the generations […]
Starting in Spring 2020 I suggested that if COVID-19 lasted, in first and second wave, a year, that this year would trigger some five year’s worth of change, and it has. Once it became clear that reality had changed, our lives and most aspects of them would experience accelerated change and transformation. We are now […]
First, a thank you to all the people who have purchased the just released paperback version of my latest book. Clearly many people are realizing that they are in various states of cognitive dissonance. It is the state we will be in for much of this decade. Second, this is the first of several columns […]
In an earlier column here I introduced both the concept of cognitive dissonance and my latest book about it. When I wrote that column, I had just published the eBook version of the book for the promotional price of $2.99. I did this to allow followers and readers of mine an opportunity to get the […]
As regular readers know, I am one of three global futurists that are the initiators of the #forkintheroadproject. In a column back in March I introduced you to this global initiative. Since this initiative was launched in January it has grown significantly with an ever -increasing number of initial signers and participants in our four […]
[Note to readers: I have been AWOL here for the past few weeks as I had to finish the last draft of this latest book of mine. I am back to regular posting here. Thank you!] The 2020s will be a decade of cognitive dissonance. We will all experience more cognitive dissonance in the […]
This is the title of one of my most enjoyable podcasts with Don MacPherson, the creator of the 12 Geniuses Podcast series. I usually don’t write a blog post about a podcast, but this one is worth letting you know about it. Don did a lot of preparation, including reading several of my books and […]
Last fall I was having a couple of Zoom calls with two futurists for whom I have a great deal of respect. We were talking about what we saw going on in the world, what the lasting effect of the global pandemic might be and what is ahead for this decade. We all came to […]
