All aspects of life will continue to change in an accelerated way. The speed of technological change today is the slowest it will be for the rest of our lifetimes. The last year of the Transformation Decade is now here.  During the 2010-2020 decade many aspects of life changed their nature, shape, character and form. […]

There have been several blog posts here that were originally published by The Sarasota Institute.  A post about Healthcare in America, presenting the worst case for climate change, and Andy Warhol.   The Story of The Sarasota Institute In January 2017 in Sarasota, Florida my friend Phil Kotler, the “father of modern marketing,” and I […]

The United States, and many countries in the world, are about to experience the greatest transfer of generational influence, power and absolute number of people in history. The Millennial and Digital Native/Gen Z generations, those born since 1981, will become the majority of the U.S. population in 2020. Each of these generations are now bigger […]

[Note:  this column first appeared at The Sarasota Institute ]   The developed countries of the world are in transition from economies based upon ownership to ones increasingly based upon rental or access.  As much as any other trend, this will transform economics, consumption and how we live.  The concept of ownership is deeply embedded […]

In the early part of this century, there was a widely discussed theory called Peak Oil.  The basic premise was that humanity was moving through a time when half of all oil in the Earth had been extracted and that we were beginning to extract the second half of what remained. I was a partial […]

The calendar says that in the Northern Hemisphere, in the United States, we are now in the season of Fall.  The fall equinox was 9/21-22.  In the U.S., we have all grown up going to school in the fall.  It is the beginning of the new year, the new grade.  Summer is over, and we […]

Those who are regular readers of mine and those who have heard me speak over the last year, know that I fully anticipate some economic disruption to occur in 2019. In the first column I published about this impending event in October 2017  I stated that I am using the word disruption instead of such […]

Recently, I visited Oak Ridge Laboratories in Knoxville, Tennessee. If that name sounds familiar, it is because it was one of the key places where the nuclear age was launched. It is the home of the Graphite Reactor where at 5 a.m. Nov. 4, 1943, spontaneous nuclear reactions began. Along with Chicago Pile 1 at […]

Finally, there is a groundswell for a unique, creative, possible piece of legislation that could have both a profound effect on reducing carbon and creating consensus in Congress.  Solving two of the biggest problems the U.S. has today. We simply cannot let this opportunity go away! Back in February of last year I wrote about […]

Disintermediation has been a topic here for years. I started this blog in 2006 and this column was one of the first published followed shortly by this one .  In 2007 I again wrote on this theme here.  Then, through the years I have referenced disintermediation when forecasting, as in this accurate forecast about cable […]