America’s Great Middle-Class Boom Has Begun
As Professor Carlota Perez forecast two decades ago, the tumultuous “transition phase” of the Digital...
Great Power Demographics
As Trends subscribers know, the future is determined by trends in demography, technology, and human behavior. Of...
The New Reality of Sino-American Relations
For the past 25 years, the United States has executed a strategy based on the idea that a combination of persistent...
The Relationship Between Urban Density and...
As population has migrated from “rural” to “urban” locations, affluence has also risen. What is the...
America’s Emerging Job Imperative
published on: Jan 15, 2019
As discussed in prior issues, America is at a tipping point, somewhat analogous to those we faced during the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and...
The Brave New World Comes to California
published on: Nov 15, 2018
Whether you compare it to Huxley’s Brave New World or an info-tech reinterpretation of Medieval Europe or the Antebellum South, the dysfunctional...
Embracing MOOCs Will Close the Skills Gap
published on: May 15, 2018
Unemployment is at record lows, and skilled jobs are increasingly going unfilled. Bain & Company estimates that between now and 2030, between $5...
Millennials find a Home
published on: Apr 15, 2018
Millennials are getting a late start in life because of factors beyond their control, just like the Greatest Generation. How has this influenced the...
The Geo-demography of America’s NEW Economic...
published on: Feb 15, 2018
The big winners of the so-called “Installation Phase” of the Digital Techno-Economic Revolution were the makers of the core technology and their...
The power of Generational Cycles
published on: Jan 15, 2018
Analyzing trends requires an understanding of how demography, technology and human behavior interact to shape our constantly evolving economy. At...
Making the Most of America’s Aging...
published on: Jun 24, 2017
America’s global military, economic, and political leadership depends on being the world’s foremost source of scientific and technological...
Generation Z Gets Serious About Consumption
published on: Mar 15, 2017
Just when marketers were beginning to understand Millennials, a whole new set of consumers is gaining increased buying power. For over a decade,...
Millennials Are Poised to Super-Charge Growth
published on: Mar 15, 2017
Beginning in 1982, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rose more than 1,100 percent over the next 18 years. A big factor driving this explosion...
The Demographic Revolution that Wasn't
published on: Feb 25, 2017
Politicians relying on immigration to shift America’s demographic and political center in their direction suffered a train wreck of epic proportion...
Get Ready for Gen Z Workers
published on: Jun 15, 2016
Just when Boomers and Xers had assimilated Millennials into the workplace, here comes Gen Z. They aren’t any more like Millennials than Boomers...
Opportunity Urbanism
published on: May 30, 2016
Demographer Joel Kotkin has identified the emergence of a new urban paradigm that maximizes growth and provides greater upward mobility. He calls...
America’s New Class Structure
published on: Apr 11, 2016
The extraordinary political anger we’ve seen play out so far in the 2016 election cycle is just one manifestation of the social restructuring...
China Hits the Demographic Great Wall
published on: Dec 19, 2015
Demography, coupled with technology and human behavior, is destiny; and unlike the other two components of “destiny’s trident,” demography is...
Addressing the Urban Mobility Challenge
published on: Nov 14, 2015
For the first time in history, more humans live in urban centers than in rural settings. One of the biggest challenges is to provide a satisfactory...
The End of Retirement
published on: Jul 11, 2015
For more than 25 years, the Trends editors have argued that the lifecycle adopted by the Greatest Generation and Silent Generation was not...
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