The Great Recession of 2008-2010 in having a profound effect on the way we all live. Yes, there is much hardship, there is much pain, there is much loss, there is a sense of damage we all feel. That said, there are changes in the wind that point to profound long term benefits when we […]
Last week G.E. announced an incredible breakthrough in storage technology. This breakthrough allows the equivalent of 100 DVDs of content to be put on one disc. This is another dramatic step in the on-going revolution of storage of the last decade. As long time readers of this blog know I have consistently written about this […]
The automotive industry of the 21st century is making promises and delivering on them. As I wrote in a column four months ago, if the federal government is thinking about spending tens of billions to prop up the remnants of last century’s automotive industry, it should also spend billions to support the innovative auto industry […]
This is the third year I have provided readers with a forecast for the year ahead. This forecast will be spread over several columns.. This first column frames where we are in a large historical context and the trends and forces that are reshaping the world as we enter this New Year. The general feeling […]
There has been much discussion in Washington and in the media about what to do with the Big Three. One school of thought is that the country cannot afford for GM, Ford and Chrysler to fail and fall into bankruptcy so they must be bailed out The other line of thinking is to let them […]
The past few weeks have seen the unfolding of the financial crisis and meltdown of global equity markets. During this time I have been traveling across North America giving speeches about the future to groups of CEOs and business owners. In every instance, the primary concern of everyone has been what the short and long […]
The economy has clearly become the primary subject today in America. It has become so not only because of all the issues discussed in the prior column, but also because it has also become the number one issue for voters in this significant election year. In the “Forecast for 2008” column on January 9th of […]
The time between this column and the last one posted here is the longest time between columns in the more than two year life of this blog. The reason is very simple. My father-in-law died a week ago and I have been mourning the passing of not only a man I loved, but an American […]
The last 50 years of humanity’s mindless consumption of fossil fuels has helped accelerate global warming. The total lack of a cohesive energy policy and program in America has given us $4 a gallon gasoline with $5 and $6 a gallon a practical certainty. There are millions of new riders on our mass transit systems […]
We have now entered the Shift Age, the global stage of humanity’s evolutionary journey. What this means is that the U.S. must redefine itself within this new global age. During the second half of the 20th century, the U.S. was a super power, the super power that lead the Western bloc of nations in contrast […]