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Foresight Journaling – Unlocking the secret truths to your hidden future!
Let’s start by asking, “What if we had a better way of finding answers to our most pressing personal issues?” Each of us are challenged with a unique set of problems, circumstances, challenges, and opportunities, and let’s be honest, we’re not good at making...
How the Coronavirus has Altered the Course of Human History
A couple days ago I was contacted by Anastasia Levchenko. Chief Correspondent for the Sputnik News Agency based in Italy. She asked if I could answer a series of interview questions about the changing state of the world as a result of the coronavirus. She...
19 Startling Covid Trends and 19 Golden Covid Opportunities Emerging from the Chaos
As Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel once said, “You should never let a serious crisis go to waste!” We’re entering unprecedented times, and yes, the coronavirus will go down in the history books as the most expensive crisis in all history…. so far! Perhaps WWI and WWII were...
Coping with the Exponential Speed of Panic
Whether you think the coronavirus is a festering pandemic or an overhyped version of the common flu, there are many things we can learn from how the world is responding to the news of the coronavirus and what indicators may signal a permanent global shift. While...
The Fear of Doing Nothing: Our overarching fear of getting caught with our pants down in an age of hyper-awareness
In 1998-1999, the world was being gripped by fear. It wasn’t the fear of war, famine, uprisings, or a coronavirus-like pandemic, instead there was a growing anxiety over Y2K. Today, we tend to laugh at how the world was festering over something as trivial as the time...
Podcast College
What if getting a college degree involved little more than listening to podcasts and taking tests? Podcasts can be squeezed into every crack in every day, like riding in a car, working out at the gym, going on a bike ride, or waiting at the doctors office. Most...
How many Einsteins and Mozarts are born in every million people? Can there be more? Should there be more?
The world is currently undergoing a massive demographic shift, with over half of all new born babies born in six countries - Angola, Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Pakistan. First world countries, with their ambitious lifestyles are far less interested in the...
Disrupting Transactions: 7 Examples of AI Driven Smart Transactions that will Mess with your Mind
The banking world is in trouble. Our entire world is primarily built around one central activity - transacting payments. Today we’re seeing an emerging breed of non-bank companies coming out of the woodwork, maneuvering quickly, to reinvent transactions in ways we...
Backcasting Our Way to a Better Future: 8 Eye-Opening Scenarios
How much control do we have over our future? As I have discussed in previous columns, the internal steering wheel that our subconscious relies on to guide us through our daily lives is our inner vision of the future. Tucked away, deep in our cranial cavities, is our...
Autonomous Car Privacy – 8 Scenarios to Explain the Enormous Complexity of this Issue
Over the coming years the conversations about privacy in driverless vehicles will become a delicate balancing act between privacy, security, and convenience. Let’s consider a typical morning commute in 2030. After summoning a car, it arrives quickly, recognizes you,...
