For the last 20 years – the 21st Century so far – I have been lamenting that America has fallen into what I call a vision deficit. During much of our history we have been a vision-driven country. These visions have united us and motivated us to become the greatest democracy in history. That ranking […]
This decade will have more change, disruption, transformation and creative destruction than any other decade in history. Thje four overarching dynamics of this decade are” The Age of Intelligence, The Age of Climate, The Reinvention of Capitalsim and Democracy. This is my most useful book about the future that I have written in that is […]
[Part of this column was published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune] U.S. The next three months will be a time of darkness in America. This will be due to COVID-19. We are entering a time when the past experiences we have had with the virus as a nation will seem more like a prologue. […]
[This column was published earlier here in Medium] Everything that is happening now will be triggering cascading consequences well into the future. We are all so fully immersed in the disruption we are going through… there are huge problems we are managing as leaders, workers, parents, students and simply being family members. It is difficult […]
In the 1960s and into the early 1970s, psychologist Walter Mischel* created the “marshmallow test”. The basic premise was to see whether children could develop the self-discipline of delayed gratification. A researcher would sit in a room with a child. When the researcher had to step outside the room for an indeterminant time, she gave […]
“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 […]
[Mu of his column just appeared in the Sarasota Herald- Tribune Clear image, right? Either a memory from your childhood or from parenthood. The first lesson is to learn how to peddle, break, hand signal, turn and generally adapt to the concept of a bike. My father was hard core. He said no training wheels, […]
“It was the best of times it was the worst of times” This of course is one of the most famous first lines of any novel. Dickens was describing a particular time. As a futurist I have often used this phrase but in a slightly different way. The best of times usually refers to […]
The 21st Century is a huge and deeply significant transition to this new global stage of human evolution. In fact, this new stage underpins the remaining chapters of this book*. Every aspect of human life is being integrated into an ever more connected global reality. The entire 150,000 year history of Modern Humanity has brought […]
[This column is an excerpt from “The 2020s: The Most Disruptive Decade in History”. This was first published as a column in Medium] We are now in the global stage of human evolution. The Flow to Global is one of three flows of the Shift Age. The label “global” has become common. In the last […]
