It is the end of November 2012. We now know who the President of the United States will be for the next four years. We know all about the results of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. A month from now we will know that the Mayan Prophecy did not mean that the world would end. […]
When the 2012 election returns came in, I was in Sydney Australia. The view was high level and from afar. This reminded me of a forecast I had made about a high level forecast of mine from far back in 2007 about the 2012 election. The specifics of the outcome were, in fact what I […]
[ This first appeared a week ago in my Shift Age Newsletter. ] In the first eight months of 2011, I made some economic forecasts relative to the global economic landscape. As a futurist, that is part of what I do, as people always ask me about the future, particularly economics. It is only fair […]
In my last column, I wrote about attending Burning Man for the first time here in 2012. I included lots of links that I highly recommend you click on if you have not yet done so as they will provide a basic understanding of and the beauty of Burning Man. At the end of that […]
As noted last week, I made my first trip to Burning Man this year. It became clear to me about a year ago that I had to go this year. 2012 is obviously a year much about the future so this was finally the year. Obviously many other people felt that way as well as […]
This is a flat out apology to all my long time readers and to all of those that have signed up for email notifications in the past two months. It has been more than two months since my last blog post. I have never gone more than three weeks and usually post every other week. […]
In the last column I wrote about the fact that humanity has entered the Transformation Decade and then defined transformation. I also wrote about Legacy Thinking and how we all tend to live in the present and look ahead to the future through the conceptual filters of the past. Both concepts were relative to the […]
Europe is moving into a time of incredible transformation. The financial and leadership crises in Europe need to be looked at from a historically high level. The media coverage and commentary concerning the Euro crisis is completely “in the weeds”. The coverage and discussion of the issues in Europe now are about austerity versus growth, […]
I am frequently asked about what technology I carry and use. This is due in large part because I am a futurist and to many people technology and the future are close to synonymous. That of course is not wholly true, but certainly understandable as it is technology that seems to trigger the changes in […]
[Note: A version of this column recently appeared in the Shift Age Newsletter. Please feel free to sign up for a free subscription.] I have been writing and speaking that IP is the wealth of the Shift Age for the last six years. And over the last six years, this reality has become ever more […]