Evaluating 21st Century Digital Solutions
As digital technology advances at an ever-accelerating rate, managers are faced with more and more...

The Machine Intelligence Revolution Takes Shape
We’ve just entered one of the most exciting eras in human history. We’ve referred to it repeatedly as the Golden...

Closing the Technological Iron Curtain
China has used U.S. capital and intellectual property to transform itself into the 21st Century’s most serious...

China and the U. S. Face-Off on the AI Battlefield
Trends’ January 2017 cover story outlined one of the most important trends we’ve ever identified, “Harnessing...


Riding a Wave of Business Process Automation
published on: Jun 15, 2020
In 2020, we find ourselves at the revolutionary convergence of myriad diverse, trends creating once-in-a-lifetime threats and opportunities that few...

Trust Busting the Internet Giants
published on: Jun 15, 2020
It is widely perceived that certain Silicon Valley companies have unchecked power to censor, restrict, edit, shape, hide, or alter virtually any form...

Creating Competitive Advantage Through Data
published on: Mar 15, 2020
Many executives and investors assume that it’s possible to use customer-data capabilities to gain an unbeatable competitive edge. The more...

The AI-Based Competitive Revolution
published on: Feb 15, 2020
As previously highlighted in Trends, there are nearly endless opportunities to leverage technology in order to deploy more precise, efficient, and...

The Anglosphere Rises
published on: Jan 15, 2020
Since the 16th century, the English-speaking nations have been uniquely innovative, productive, and influential. As such, they’ve been at the...

Our Ever-Expanding Data Universe
published on: Aug 15, 2019
For decades, data collection, storage, transmission and analysis have been expanding at an accelerating rate. Meanwhile the unit-cost at every step...

Smart Hiring for the Information Revolution
published on: Aug 15, 2019
Today there are more jobs than candidates. As a result, for the first time since the 90’s, the U.S. is a “seller’s market” for talent. ...

The Great AI Boom Ahead
published on: Aug 15, 2019
Artificial intelligence (or AI) is the next big thing! Accenture and Frontier Economics concluded that AI could drive U.S. economic growth to an...

Flying Cars Surge Forward
published on: Jul 15, 2019
The year 2019 may be remembered as the year when “flying cars” were transformed from “sci-fi fantasy” into an emerging industry. What has...

The Sino-American War for 5G Dominance
published on: May 15, 2019
As the Golden Age of the Fifth Techno-Economic Revolution unfolds, no single technology is more strategically important than 5G mobile networks. In...

Artificial Intelligence Could Revolutionize...
published on: Mar 15, 2019
AI’s chief impact on civilization might not be driverless automobiles, image search, speech recognition, or flying cars, but its ability to come up...

Get Ready for the Great 5G Business Boom
published on: Jan 15, 2019
The rollout of 5G telecom may well be the most important single trend of 2019 and 2020. Within five years from now, roughly 1 billion people...

Human-Computer ‘Super-minds’ Redefine the...
published on: Jul 15, 2018
As MIT professor Thomas Malone reminds us, “Virtually all human achievements have been made by groups of people, not lone individuals.” And, as...

The 5G Future is Almost Here
published on: Jul 15, 2018
Massive recent investments in the 5G-compatible spectrum is a telling indication of the perceived economic promise of 5G wireless technology, which...

Moore’s Law: Alive? Dead? Or resurrected?
published on: May 15, 2018
Moore’s Law embodies the indispensable foundation of the digital revolution! But some experts argue that Moore’s law is dead. Others say it’s...

Quantum Computing Becomes a Real Technology
published on: Apr 15, 2018
With Google, IBM, and Microsoft joining the world’s top universities and a new wave of start-ups, it’s just a matter of time before quantum...