The COVID-19 pandemic is a dangerous one. It has triggered many new patterns of behavior. Some will stick and will change our society permanently; some will fade away. There’s a widespread questioning of who and what to trust. Collectively, we are getting closer and yet more distant, simultaneously. We are finding new ways to look […]

[Note:  this was just published on The Sarasota  Institute – A 21st Century Think Tank web site.] [Preamble – As a futurist my mind is exploding with all the possible long-term disruptions inherent in the global COVID-19 reality. In addition, I have supplemented my 200+ inbound emails, content aggregators, research newsletters with some information provided […]

The magnitude and probable consequences of this gargantuan black swan event will be significant and numerous.  Realizations, insights, revelations, probabilities, and forecasts keep coming to me as this all sinks in. Here are just some of what may lie ahead both in the near term, and more significantly in the long term.  Each of these […]

  On the morning of Monday 3/2, I had to make a decision.  Do I cancel a symposium scheduled for Saturday 3/7 that could attract some 400 people because of the COVID-19 or not?  Further, the title of the symposium was “The New Health Age of the 21st Century”  the third symposium of 2020, produced […]

Last week I wrote about the climate change conference that The Sarasota Institute – A 21st Century Think Tank  was presenting.  Called “A Leap Year Look at Climate Change” it was unique in the sense that in the morning was the 2020 updated reality of what the climate crisis now looks like.  In the afternoon […]

[ a significant percentage of this column was first published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune] As a futurist, the most important thing to me is to be as right as I can be in my forecasts.  Otherwise I have no value to you my readers, or to anyone in my audiences around the world, or readers […]

The 2020s will be the most transformative and disruptive decade in history.  There will be a number of significant trends and dynamics that will greatly affect how humanity lives, works and plays.  I will take a deeper, more specific look at many of these in the next few columns. What I want to highlight now […]

Education is clearly one of the most important endeavors of humanity.  How we educate children, youth, and adults is of paramount importance.  In the coming Age of Intelligence the disruption of the workplace will be unprecedented.  This will make lifelong learning, on-going training, and constant re-education more important than ever. The key question for educators […]

  The problem I have about forecasts for the year is just that, they cover just 12 months. To many, if not most, people, the year ahead is about as much future as they want to, or can, see. Most people think the future is about their plans and it is hard to plan beyond […]

  [parts of this column were published in the Sarasota Herald Tribune]  You will most likely read this column at the very end of 2019.  2020 is hours away. There is always the hoopla of the year-end: top ten lists, news reviews,  and, on a personal level, a look back at the year and what […]