What Industries will produce the First Trillionaires?
What Industries will produce the First Trillionaires? A few weeks ago I got into a discussion with some friends centered around this question. “What, in your mind, will be the most powerful entity in the world 100 years from now?” As we look around us today, it’s easy...
Modern Day Grandstanding and the Future of Getting Noticed
Modern Day Grandstanding and the Future of Getting Noticed On a recent trip to Amsterdam, I had a conversation with Axel Rüger, Director of the renowned Van Gogh Museum about what it was that made Van Gogh so famous. Was it his talent, the fact that he cut off his own...101 Endangered Jobs by 2030
101 Endangered Jobs by 2030 Business owners today are actively deciding whether their next hire should be a person or a machine. After all, machines can work in the dark and don’t come with decades of HR case law requiring time off for holidays, personal illness,...
Extreme Graphene and the Coming Super Materials Gold Rush
Extreme Graphene and the Coming Super Materials Gold Rush In 2004, scientists Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov from the University of Manchester, used adhesive tape to lift a thin layer of carbon from a block of graphite, and placed it on a silicone wafer. Graphite is...