[Part of this column was published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune where I write a bi-weekly column for a still strong local newspaper. I am a resident of Florida, hence the reference to the state.] We Americans have a very rare opportunity to actually shape our future for the next six to twelve months. There are […]
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 […]
[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 […]
The United States, and many countries in the world, are about to experience the greatest transfer of generational influence, power and absolute number of people in history. The Millennial and Digital Native/Gen Z generations, those born since 1981, will become the majority of the U.S. population in 2020. Each of these generations are now bigger […]
There will be more change in the next 20 years than any 20-50 year period in history. In fact, future historians may well look back on this time as a historical transit as significant as the beginning of the Industrial Revolution or the Renaissance. It is hard to imagine any area of life that will […]
If not for Alvin Toffler I wouldn’t be a futurist. It was reading Toffler, along with Marshall McLuhan, R. Buckminster Fuller and a lot of science fiction in my early twenties that gave me the basis for thinking that there was some profession about the future to be had. “Future Shock” was Toffler’s biggest book […]
We are entering the second great stage of the global economy. The last column here looked back at the foundations of the global economy up to and through the reorganizational recession of 2007-2011. We now look at what has happened in the years since and begin the look into what the next stage might look […]
As a futurist I look at the world of economics through different filters than do economists. I am certainly not trained as an economist nor as a financial advisor. I write this disclaimer as I am frequently asked about “the economy” and long term investments by people wanting to better invest their money. Dividing economics […]
[This column was first published in the Shift Age Newsletter #27 ] This is the third and final of columns that look at the forecasts I have made relative to things that might happen through 2013. As pointed out in the first two columns, the real purpose is to analyze why forecasts were correct and […]
This column first appeared in the Shift Age Newsletter. Regardless of what transpires in the geo-political landscape relative to the civil war in Syria, it may well be looked upon as a pivot point for citizens of the United States. This could be the beginning of a necessary and critical conversation about the future of […]
