Cooling Without Electricity
Today, it’s estimated that worldwide electricity costs total roughly $2.5 trillion a year and that cooling systems...
Getting Infrastructure Investment Rig...
Donald Trump has proposed to invest an average of $100 billion per year on infrastructure upgrades over the next ten...
Urban Mobility Takes Off
Just as the Digital Revolution promises to transform urban ground transportation, it is opening up the possibility of...
The Future of Banking
Banking is being radically transformed by the Digital Revolution. What can we expect? Who are the likely winners and...
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 En...
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...
Systematic Investors Reap Extraordinary Retur...
published on: Feb 24, 2014
Ironically, most competent executives, business visionaries, newsletter publishers, and fund managers generate investment results that are mediocre...
Where Is Additive Manufacturing Headed?
published on: Dec 14, 2013
When the Trends editors first started talking about additive manufacturing a few years ago, it was both exotic and unusual. There was a lot of buzz...
Autonomous Vehicles: Human Nature Meets AI
published on: Dec 14, 2013
Of all the areas in which service robots could make an impact on our lives, the biggest has to be transportation. If we could suddenly transition...
Moving Beyond Stagnation
published on: Oct 8, 2013
Despite the 177 percent rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average from March 2009 through September 2013, the underlying economy has grown at a...
The Evolving Future of Television
published on: Sep 11, 2013
In the second half of the 20th century, television was not just the most important vehicle for entertainment and news, but also the homogenizing glue...
Pre-Selling the Future
published on: Jul 16, 2013
As highlighted in the prior issues of Trends, crowdfunding and cocreation involve investors and consumers in the funding and development of new...
Synthetic Biology Moves into the Real World
published on: Jul 16, 2013
Synthetic biology is at the very cutting edge of the Digital Revolution and may even form the foundation for the next Techno-Economic Revolution. As...
Extraordinary Popular Delusions 2012
published on: Aug 2, 2012
It’s been 171 years since Charles Mackay published his classic work, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. The recent housing...
Commercial Space Flight Goes Mainstream
published on: Jul 1, 2012
Private industry has finally begun delivering launch vehicles and orbital spacecraft to fill the void left by government programs. What are the...
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