January is the time of year that there are hundreds, if not thousands of stories about the new tech gadgets and technological innovations coming this year and next.  This is largely due to the year starting out with the CES show in Las Vegas and the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Both shows […]

During the Shift Age – the first third of the 21th century- we are shifting from what was to what will be. We are truly moving from the “reality” of the 20th century to a new emerging reality that will be well shaped by the late 2030s. Everywhere there is disruption and transformation  We are […]

  As we look back in anger/weariness/concern/anxiety/happiness at 2017, my audiences and readers frequently ask the same questions: What is going on and what does this mean in the years ahead? The world is changing rapidly and in big ways. The technologies that were pure science fiction a decade ago are moving into our lives. […]

[Note:  This post is much longer than usual.  It was first published at The Sarasota Institute where columns are 1500-2500 words.  I didn’t want to break the column in two.] The negative effects of fossil fuels have been speculated upon and known for a long time. The larger scale concerns, awareness, and now actions have largely […]

The time between now and 2037 will be one of the most transformative historic transits in history.  There we be more change in the next 20 years than in any 50 -100 year period in history.  Reality as we know it will change. As the futurist who has been saying for 10 years that we […]

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 […]

We humans that are alive now are the first iteration of humanity to have to psychologically adapt to sharing the planet with an equal or superior intelligence.  We have always thought, accepted or “known” that our species is the most intelligent on earth.  To some degree and certainly increasing in the years ahead, that is […]

The Millennium Project’s latest report – the State of the Future 19.0- has recently been published.  This publication is one of the few that looks broadly at the present and future of humanity. As a futurist, I find it has always provided a wider scope of analysis about the present issues than most other reports […]

We now live in the Age of Disruption.  We now live in the Age of Transformation. Please stop using the word Innovation.  It is a 1990s word.  Everywhere I go, all the conferences and trade shows I speak at, the word innovation is on everyone’s lips.  “We provide innovative solutions to….”  “We are an innovative […]