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Deurbanization – How Will this New Trend Affect You in the Future
The longstanding trend towards urbanization – urban areas growing faster than non-urban areas – was proceeding unabated until it turned on a dime in 2020 due to the COVID epidemic. The trend for the foreseeable future is now in exactly the opposite direction –...
What Comes After Social Media? 2030 and Beyond
Can you imagine a future without social media? It’s probably just as hard for us to do that as it would have been for people 25 years ago to imagine a technology that would allow us to easily share information with the world. Modern social media began in 2003 with the...
Housing Industry Disconnect – Today’s housing will be a poor fit for tomorrow’s customers.
It’s difficult to plan for the future when certain industries, like housing, insist on living in the past. Three years ago, I was in a car accident. My knee has been giving me problems ever since and, at times, it’s a bit challenging to walk. Recently, my wife had an...
15 Global Challenges – Changing Times, Changing Priorities
It’s a funny thing about the future. As much as we’d like to think otherwise, changing the future is hard, and changing the past is even harder. Yet we can predict it, and as time moves forward and the future gets closer, our predictions and visions of the future...
The Coming Era of Super Employment
Pandemic or no, technology and innovation keep marching along. That will be the key to personal financial and national macro-economic progress. Take television technology … please! Twenty-five years ago, a 32-inch television was massive and ridiculously heavy, bulky...
2021 will be the Year of Recalibration!
\When we think about the years ahead, there’s the future and then there’s the future future. Let’s talk about the immediate future first. Recalibration is the Word 2021 will be a year of recalibration. As we’re gradually able to put the worst elements of 2020 behind...
Creating the Every-Human Database and the God Globe
I recently read an article in which the author concluded that Facebook knows as much or more about many of the people who are not on Facebook as those that are. In fact, Facebook’s ability to track the online activity of non-Facebook Internet users has been under...
Ten History-Altering Breakthroughs in 2020
In 2020, every day is a blur. We roll out of bed, grab a cup of coffee, try to make sure we’re presentable from the waist up, and check the schedule for our first Zoom call. And then we realize it’s Saturday. Similar to our days, truth is a blur. The truth from China...
Cultured Meats May be the Key to Pandemic-Proofing Our Future
In 2017, I wrote a column titled “The Coming Meat Wars - 17 Mind-Blowing Predictions.” My second prediction on the list was that cultured meats would be available in grocery stores by 2020. That’s about to happen. Cultured chicken, in the form of nuggets, will soon be...
Elon Musk on Track to become the World’s First Trillionaire
In 2014, I wrote a column entitled, “What Industries will produce the First Trillionaires?” and over 40,000 people stopped by to read about the 18 possible industries that, at the time, seemed to be the most likely candidates. Our perspective sure has changed over the...
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