Singles Day was November 11, 2019 in China. During that 24-hour period $38 billion in sales was reached, all on-line. This is a phenomenal number when compared to more common American shopping metrics. Cyber Monday – the Monday immediately following Thanksgiving – generated $7.9 sales in 2018, all on-line in America. Of course, there are […]
[Note to readers: I am deep in writing a trilogy of eBooks with a tight deadline. So I have decided to bring back some columns from the past, that many recent new subscribers might not have seen. Since I am a futurist, I am called upon to make forecasts. My firm commitment is to be […]
In the last 25 years global wealth inequality has increased to historic levels. Recent articles suggest that we have returned to 1920s era levels. Basic history knowledge informs us what happened at the end of the 1920s in October 1929. The last 40 years has been very good to the top 1%, .01% and the […]
There will be some sort of economic slow-down or disruption in 2019. In a column I wrote back in October 2017, I stated that between then and 2020 there would be some sort of economic disruption. I now refine the timing of that forecast. I think that sometime between the 4th quarter of 2018 and […]
In 2013, after Snowden made his massive data dump, I was prompted to do a deep dive into the concept of Privacy. This led to the writing and publishing of “Is Privacy Dead? :The Future of Privacy in the Digital Age” a short, e-book only, look at this topic. In the wake of the Facebook […]
In a recent column I suggested that 2018 would be a year when Big Tech, particularly Facebook would face issues and problems and that it no longer would be living in a criticism free zone. In the last six to nine months I have stated that I thought that the total number of active Facebook […]
[This column first appeared at The Sarasota Institute, a 21st century think tank that I co-founded with Phil Kotler, Jason Apollo Voss in 2017. Please visit the site and if you like what you see, please sign-up for email notifications. Thank you!] This is a pretty catchy title isn’t it. Thank you for reading. You […]
The value I try to bring to audiences and readers is to be as accurate as possible about the future five years out and directionally accurate 10-15 years out. That said, as a futurist I am always asked about the near-term future as well. The closer in, the more individuals and single events can affect […]
One of the more frivolous consequences of being a futurist is that I am always asked about “who’s going to win?”. The Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup [by Canadians] and of course last year, the presidential election. Sporting events I laughingly wave my hand at, but a national election encompasses dynamics that are larger and […]
[Note: much of this column was recently published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune] I am not a financial adviser nor an economist. I do not offer investment advice. I am instead very happy to be a futurist whose value is to forecast the future accurately up to five years out and directionally 10 to 15 years […]
