In my last column, I wrote about attending Burning Man for the first time. I included lots of links that I highly recommend you click on if you have not yet done so, as they will provide a basic understanding of the beauty of Burning Man. At the end of that last column I wrote: “Next I will look at Burning ...
Burning Man 2012 – Part One
on 9.27.12
As noted last week, I made my first trip to Burning Man this year. It became clear to me about a year ago that I had to go this year. 2012 is a year much about the future, so this was finally the year for me to make the trip. Many other people felt that way as well as this year had record attendance of 62,000+, up from ...
What I Did Last Summer
on 9.20.12
This is a flat out apology to all my long time readers in this space here. It has been more than two months since my last blog post. I have never gone more than three weeks and usually post every other week. I apologize! The reasons for this absence are two-fold. First, I am just finishing up the epilogue and notes for ...
2010-2020: Europe’s Transformation Decade – Part Two
on 7.17.12
In the last column I wrote about the fact that humanity has entered the Transformation Decade and defined transformation. I also wrote about Legacy Thinking and how we all tend to live in the present and look ahead to the future through the conceptual filters of the past. Both concepts were relative to the reality that is ...
2010-2020: Europe’s Transformation Decade — Part One
on 6.26.12
Europe is moving into a time of incredible transformation. The financial and leadership crises in Europe need to be looked at from a historically high level. The media coverage and commentary concerning the Euro crisis is completely “in the weeds.” The coverage and discussion of the issues in Europe are now about ...
A Futurist’s Personal Technology
on 5.14.12
Read the full story at Davide Houle. I am frequently asked about what technology I carry and use. This is due in large part because I am a futurist and to many people technology and the future are close to synonymous. That of course is not wholly true, but certainly understandable as it is technology that seems ...
No Longer a Day but an Age
on 4.22.12
I knew Earth Day was coming by my email inbox. Every day for the past few weeks I've gotten pitches to write about some company’s new eco product. The words LEED certified, Eco, Green, Recycled, Renewable have become an endless blur in the subject line of in-bound emails. This is now a spring ritual. Last year around ...
The Easiest Way to Understand Health Care Reform
on 3.25.12
In my last column I wrote the New Health Age, the new age of health care and medicine that we have entered. The coming changes in the health care landscape the United States and the incredible medical miracles rapidly coming will define this new age. As written in the last column, the national conversation about health ...
The New Health Age
on 3.6.12
We have entered a new health age in this early part of the 21st century. Humanity and particularly Americans are entering a new time of medical miracles and health care. The thinking, delivery and economics of medicine and health care are changing and these changes will be accelerating in the next few years. In the ...
Memes to Movements
on 1.30.12
The three forces of the Shift Age are the Flow to Global, the Flow to the Individual and the Accelerated Electronic Connectedness of the planet. There are 7 billion humans alive today and 5.3 billion of them have cell phones. 3 billion people connect to the Internet every day. These are the forces and the numbers that are ...
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