What’s your favorite app? Which one customizes your selection and delivery of news and information, tailored to your pre-existing beliefs and personal preferences?   What’s your favorite news channel? Where can you tune to hear what you want to hear and reaffirm your beliefs?   Which newspapers and magazines do you read? Which promote points of view reinforcing your devout...

Who would have believed it! Go back just a few years ago. Treat a patient with medical marijuana? The mainstream media, Big Pharma, the medical establishment and government health agencies would chastise anyone from the alternative-healing community as a quack for promoting marijuana’s healing qualities. While acceptance for medical and recreational uses has gone mainstream around the world – even...

Are apps a thing of the past? There are millions of apps available to smartphone users worldwide. In fact, there are so many apps, and they’re created so quickly, that an accurate in-the-moment count – even in our digitalized, metric-obsessed world – is virtually impossible. During the last five years – in particular, the era of “there’s an app for...

These decentralized, unalterable records of transactions are easier to understand when you see one in use by something like the Brooklyn Microgrid. Some microgrid members have solar electricity panels on their roofs; some don’t. A household without panels can buy excess power generated by panels from households that have them. A price is agreed to. Blockchain software records the amount...

To understand blockchain fever, understand how a blockchain works. In essence, a blockchain is a ledger of accounts. Every transaction – the sale of a house, a manufacturer delivering a shipment of tires to a distributor – is recorded as a “block.” Each new block is added to the “chain” that serves as a permanent record of transactions pertaining to...

Whether you like it, understand it or trust it, blockchain technology already has laid the blueprint for a new economy. And that’s just the beginning. Over the next decade, it will alter how you vote, protect personal data, make healthcare decisions, manage investments, make purchases large and small, operate your business and even help decide if food is fresh and...

After cryptocurrencies hit an all-time-high market cap of $835 billion on Jan. 7, they crashed to $279 billion on Feb. 6, declining 67 percent in a matter of weeks. The reasons?  Governments and banks are making statements and taking actions that are driving down prices and increasing fears cryptos may be banned, restricted and over taxed. The long reach of...

The Trends Journal was first to forecast the Trump Rally after Donald Trump won the race for the White House in November 2016. And, this past December, with equities prices soaring, we were the first to predict a 10-percent market correction in 2018.   We now forecast that the turbulence hitting Wall Street and rattling equity markets worldwide, signals the beginning of the...

When US equity markets began their February dive, the White House expressed “concern” about the downturn. Indeed, it should.   The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 45 percent since Donald Trump was elected in November 2016. The market, overvalued and overleveraged, prompted the Trends Research Institute to forecast that a minimum 10 percent market correction would occur in 2018. We...

When the clock strikes 12 at midnight December 31, it will ring in a New Year that will dramatically shape and shake the world, affecting virtually every dimension of our lives. In this Top 10 Trends of 2018 special report you will read tomorrow’s headlines today. You will be transported into a future of new trend treasures that the awake and aware will...