Trends Issue 105 - January 2012
Bypassing Wall Street
Bankers, rating agencies, and venture capitalists exist to provide funding to businesses and individuals. In the...

published on: Jan 6, 2012
Off-Shoring Comes Full Circle
Outsourcing and off-shoring were major growth trends of the past two decades. Technology and globalization made the...

published on: Jan 6, 2012
China Struggles to Control Its Collapsing Bubbles
As the Trends editors have long argued, China's apparent success has been propped up by unsustainable...

published on: Jan 6, 2012
50 Billion Internet Devices by 2020
The World Wide Web has transformed our lives in amazing ways. For consumers, however, most of that impact involves...

published on: Jan 6, 2012
Fast, Low-Cost Human Genomes Will Transform...
Nowhere has the impact of digitization been more profound than in the field of genomics. In roughly a dozen years,...

published on: Jan 6, 2012
Digitization Enables the Deep Transformation...
As explained in prior issues, the United States now stands at the beginning of the Deployment phase of the fifth...

published on: Jan 6, 2012