Covid-19 completely disrupted the global workplace. The two years – more or less- of living in a pandemic are receding but the ramification of it are fully present and real. [Covid is still with us, but not top of mind. Currently some 400 people die every day in the U.S. from it, which is 146,000 […]
[Much of this column was originally published in the Sarasota Herald Tribune that is part of a series on the “loss of paradise” and the need to be preemptive in planning for the future. This planning must no longer be the propagation of what was, what might have worked in the past, or as […]
Congratulations Sir Richard Branson on your first flight into space, on your own spacecraft! It was a childhood dream made real. That seemed to be your key message to those on earth; that if someone from the boomer generation could go from childhood cardboard to the creation of private space travel, what can the generations […]
[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 […]
As any aging boomer sports fan knows – particularly if you lived in NYC – that was the signature phrase used by Warner Wolf to go to the sports highlights of the day. It is perhaps as iconic a sports phrase as “Goooooooaaaaaaaal!!!” and “going, going, going… gone!” It’s a historic phrase from back […]
Singles Day was November 11, 2019 in China. During that 24-hour period $38 billion in sales was reached, all on-line. This is a phenomenal number when compared to more common American shopping metrics. Cyber Monday – the Monday immediately following Thanksgiving – generated $7.9 sales in 2018, all on-line in America. Of course, there are […]
“The Medium is the Message” – Marshall McLuhan It is fair to say that Dr. McLuhan is the greatest philosopher about media that has ever lived. He wrote in the mid-20th Century and basically influenced how the world thought about Television. “The Global Village” was created by electronic media. All his commentary on this subject […]
100 years ago, the automobile industry was rapidly expanding in America. The internal combustion engine [ICE] autos were rolling out of factories in ever greater numbers. The prices had just come down, installment payment plans were created to fuel the sales of the auto companies and the automobile started to become part of the American […]
[This golden oldie is the first of two columns on Elon Musk that I wrote four years ago in 2015. To put it simply, Musk is truly on a level with all the great robber barons and scientists of 100-125 years, ago combined. Each one of the names listed in the title represents a specific […]
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 […]
