Fixing our Insanely Broken Sales Tax System
At a recent visit to our local hairdresser, my wife and I were informed by the enterprising young lady that she was no longer selling her line of retail hair products. Filling out the monthly sales tax reports had simply become too onerous, and the profits too small...
Introducing the Futurist Hall of Fame
Over the coming months the DaVinci Institute will be unveiling the world’s first Futurist Hall of Fame.As with other “hall of fame” efforts, this one will be dedicated to drawing attention to those who have contributed the most to our thinking about the future.To be...
Entering the Era of Super Scalability – The Billion-Benchmark Club
It was a monumental event that no one noticed. Just before 1800 the number of people on earth had climbed to what was then believed to be an astronomically large number – 1 billion. While this was indeed a landmark event, the occasion passed without fanfare. The...