Antibiotics have been so overprescribed that more and more bugs are now resistant to them. In fact, tens of millions of lives are at risk from common infections that are resistant to antibiotics and can evolve into more serious medical conditions. It is a now fully evolved trend that Gerald Celente first identified in his book Trends 2000: “…worldwide misuse...

After catastrophic floods in 2012, China made recovering from floods and minimizing their damage a national priority. To achieve that goal, China is creating “sponge cities” – urban areas able to absorb and hold large amounts of excess water, gradually flowing it back into nature. Only about one-fourth of the rain falling on Chinese cities is absorbed into the ground....

Artificial Intelligence software created by Microsoft and Alibaba squeaked by humans to take the top spots in a complex reading-comprehension test. The Stanford Question Answering Dataset, or SQuAD, includes more than 100,000 sets of questions and answers drawn from 500 Wikipedia articles. SQuAD was created to challenge AI’s ability to understand written information. Microsoft said its AI system scored 82.65...

  Online education, from skills-based teaching to medical school, is the future and cutting edge ontrendpreneurs not just big universities and businesses, can cash in on it.  

On March 13, 2018, a milestone was reached with the launch of Hedera Hashgraph, the next generation of distributed ledger technology. The underlying technology is revolutionary and promises to continue to evolve and improve. To put it simply, Hedera Hashgraph is the next generation of blockchain, but without the “block”. That solves some problems inherent to the current blockchain platform. ...

When news broke that Facebook knowingly allowed app developers to use targeted data-mining apps in their platforms, leading to Cambridge Analytica’s capture of 50 million users’ personal data (without their knowledge) for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign, it triggered new levels of outrage from advertisers, Facebook users and Wall Street. Our trend-tracking perspective: This incident outraged millions who learned...

South Korean giant Hyundai Mobis, the world’s eighth-largest auto-parts supplier, says it will unveil its “e-Corner Module” by 2021. Specifically designed for electric and eco-friendly vehicles, the module bundles the motor, steering and braking system independently for each wheel. That eliminates the need for a central engine and traditional chassis. Without having to design a car body around an engine...

A key element of trend forecasting is “Don’t buy the buzz.” Just go back to the dot.com years of the 1990s, when the Geek World hit center stage.  Speaking the language of their world, which made little actual, economic or common sense in the real world, geeks sold their “We know best, and you know nothing of the new techno...

If you only follow the mainstream business news, you believe that every significant upward or downward move in equity markets was a direct cause and effect of a “breaking news” event that day. For example, when the Dow went haywire Tuesday falling more than 350 points after being up 250 points, CNBC blamed it on poor performing tech stocks. But...

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