Beyond Investing’s Conventional Wisdom
The financial services industry along with the pundits and gurus around it have come to espouse and occasionally...

Globalizing Venture Capital
For at least three decades, the dream of most tech entrepreneurs has been to create a venture-capital-funded start-up...

The Coming Battle for Arctic Resources
From at least 1967 to 2016, the world's most contested region was the Middle East. However, over the next several...

Educating the $7 Trillion Driverless “Brain”
Firms such as ARK Invest, UBS, McKinsey, and Intel believe that, within a decade, fully autonomous robot-taxis will...


Unleashing the Potential of Hypersonic Flight
published on: Jun 15, 2019
As discussed in our July 2018 issue, hypersonic flight is the latest thing in advanced weaponry. Yet the designs presently being tested by China,...

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...

Strategic Competitiveness Drives American Wealth
published on: Nov 15, 2018
The United States is once again the world’s most competitive economy. And despite recent market corrections, its multi-dimensional competitive...

Self-Driving Vehicles: From Prototypes to...
published on: Aug 15, 2018
From real estate and jobs to insurance and law enforcement, no digital application will have more far-reaching consequences than self-driving cars...

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...

Cooling Without Electricity
published on: Apr 15, 2018
Today, it’s estimated that worldwide electricity costs total roughly $2.5 trillion a year and that cooling systems consume 15% of that electricity....

Getting Infrastructure Investment Right
published on: Jan 16, 2017
Donald Trump has proposed to invest an average of $100 billion per year on infrastructure upgrades over the next ten years. Will this plan fall...

Urban Mobility Takes Off
published on: Nov 14, 2015
Just as the Digital Revolution promises to transform urban ground transportation, it is opening up the possibility of cost-effective alternatives...

The Future of Banking
published on: Oct 19, 2015
Banking is being radically transformed by the Digital Revolution. What can we expect? Who are the likely winners and losers? How can you profit?...

The Great Chinese Tech Stock Bubble
published on: Jun 23, 2015
Chinese Internet stocks are trading at staggering P/E ratios that surpass the "irrational exuberance" of the U.S. dot-com bubble 15 years ago. What's...

Self-Driving Cars Will Transform the Human...
published on: Jun 23, 2015
Once only a science fiction possibility, self-driving automobiles will soon be an everyday reality. Like the explosive mass introduction of the...

The Future of Money Management
published on: Apr 11, 2015
Money continues to pour into alternative investments, which more than doubled in size from 2005 to 2014. These investments' global assets under...

The Small Business Lending Crisis
published on: Sep 15, 2014
Small businesses, especially new ones, are the primary source of new jobs and innovations in the American economy. For that reason, economic growth...

Understanding "The Greatest Retirement Crisis...
published on: Aug 10, 2014
A recent study from The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College estimates that more than half of working-age households are at risk of...

Resolving the Capitalist's Dilemma
published on: Aug 10, 2014
The Deployment Phase of the Fifth Techno-Economic Revolution awaits decisive action on the part of value-creators. Fred Rogers and Richard Lalich...

Work, Smarts, and Wealth
published on: Aug 10, 2014
One of the biggest problems with the arguments regarding the inequality of rewards is the failure to acknowledge the role played by both intelligence...