A global cashless society is fast becoming a reality. The evidence couldn’t be clearer. Just this month, for example, under the guise of protecting us from terrorism and drug cartels, the European Central Bank announced it would no longer produce the 500 Euro note. Spinning the same tale, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is promoting eliminating the $100 bill from...
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Millennials were highly touted to be the generation engineering widespread economic change, especially by overthrowing big corporate banks. Instead, they’re hypnotized by shiny gadgets and convenient smartphone apps — the tools to allow the governments to probe more deeply into their financial world. They, and the generation following them, will cement the transition to a cashless society in the US...
Become an OnTrendpreneurs™
What: Summer Retreat When: July 22-23 Where: Colonial Kingston, New York Gerald Celente, featured speakers Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert, and Trends Research Institute analysts invite you to a unique, empowering two-day retreat this summer to help you become an “OnTrendpreneur™” — a savvy, innovative professional able to identify and seize high-potential opportunities in the months and years ahead. Held...
“The OnTrendpreneur™” Retreat details
REGISTRATION Registration is limited, and filling up fast, so don’t delay. The cost is $600 per participant; full, non-refundable payment is required at registration. You can register by calling the institute Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at 845-331-3500. WHAT’S INCLUDED The registration fee covers all seminar costs, meals and entertainment; participants are responsible for their lodging...
The death of the human experience?
It’s a geek-ruled world. Webster’s refers to a geek as “a person who is socially awkward… a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked.” You remember them from high school and college? They didn’t fit in. Not with the jocks, the hipsters, the class clowns, the bohemians, the gangsters or any other clique. And today, in what is...
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The future of VR is being measured only by the business, medical and technology fields. Experts in those fields have determined how the technology will evolve, what effects it might have on physiology and the corporate profits that can be made. But there is no body of research, just as there wasn’t at the dawn of the digital age, to...
Living the dream
Reality is so 20th century. It was during the 1980s when its replacement began to emerge. With pricey computers and clunky graphics, the primitive technology of “virtual reality” projected graphic representations onto computer screens, showing scenes that would move or turn with you, creating the illusion that you’re physically in the middle of a parallel reality. Architects now could “walk”...
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Enhanced reality will occupy a larger and larger portion of the tech market through 2025. Optimists see that market reaching $150 billion by 2020, while more cautious assessments put it at half that by 2025. Most agree that AR, with its practical applications in logistics, medicine, education and military uses, will take up to 80 percent of the market, leaving...
Hearing a Rembrandt, tasting a landscape
A blind mountain climber tastes his way to the summit. A deaf musician hears melodies on his skin. A color-blind painter listens to hues and shades. New technologies in “sensory substitution” are helping the brain replace one damaged sense with another that learns to step in and do the same task. These assistive technologies capitalize on the brain’s capacity for...
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The brain’s adaptability is opening a new field of research and development that will do for the mind what genetic engineering is doing for the body. Already, neuroscientists are finding that persons with parts of their brains removed can relearn lost functions by rewiring parts of the brain, just as stroke victims can regain movement by gradually re-tasking other parts...