If you’re a concierge, start sending out your resume. That’s what hotel chains across the world are promoting through the new brands they’re creating, focused specifically on the millennial traveler. Millennials are surpassing baby boomers as the world’s dominant generation with more than 75 million waddling around the US, eyes and fingers tethered to the smartphone. Seeing the population shift,...
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Radisson’s attempt is confusing and poorly imagined, but take it from Aloft, Moxy and other millennial brands: The guestroom is shrinking, the workspace is expanding, and the on-the-go hotel experience is coming to your town, thanks to an emerging generation.
Tiny homes on fast track
Work every day in a concrete urban wasteland. Commute 35 minutes to your suburban home with the plastic front lawn and meteoric property taxes. Rinse and repeat, reducing your soul while running up the utility bill. That’s the big-sell American Dream. A few folks have shunned this for a compact, moveable tiny house of 100 to 200 square feet. But...
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In a 2014 Demand Institute survey cited in a Bloomberg report, 60 percent of American millennials said they would one day own a home. That rate falls below the current rate, about 65 percent, of actual homeowners. But how much home will they want to own? Because millennials value perception, they may not fully embrace tiny houses. But because of...
Researchers closer to easily editing human genes
In mid-April, researchers announced they had used a promising new gene-splicing technique to “edit out” of living human embryos the genes that could cause inherited conditions such as cystic fibrosis and hemophilia. The test was conducted in China. The technique is called CRISPR, short for “clustered regularly inter-spaced short palindromic repeats.” CRISPR uses inert, repeating snippets of DNA to elbow...
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Breakthroughs in gene editing will continue unabated despite debates about the growing probability that science soon will be able to direct the course of human evolution. Biotech companies will spring up and begin marketing these methods by 2030 to perfect humans in utero. The ethical controversy, however, will continue long after.
From slow food to slow living
The global “slow food” movement — forsaking fast food for the pleasures of cooking, community and simplicity — has spawned the “slow cities” trend, dubbed “Cittaslow,” which holds implications for employers, retailers and rental-property owners. Adherents seek out tiny apartments with cheaper rents, look for less-consuming jobs, or streamline their work lives. (One professional stripped his career of all but...
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At first, the Cittaslow organization only recognized towns with fewer than 50,000 residents. But that’s changing with a wave of interest from major cities. Urban centers with public transportation and amenities such as a robust infrastructure enabling telecommuting are eager to take part. Recently, a group from the booming Chinese city of Wenzhou visited Cittaslow’s Italian headquarters to learn how...
China Goes Ponzi
TRENDS THIS WEEK: China Goes Ponzi By Gerald Celente Trends Journal Publisher When the Panic of ’08 hit, the United States — the financial and military police of the world — led the charge to stop the spread of economic terror. Under the command of US Secretary of Treasury Hank Paulson, orders were given to save too-big-to-fail banks and over-leveraged financial institutions drowning in red...
June 6 conference agenda announced
The Find Your Future In Trends conference, set for June 6, promises to be a unique and dynamic experience. Taking place at the Trends Research Institute’s historic facilities in Kingston, New York, Gerald Celente will be joined by highly respected voices in economics, psychology, aging and pop culture to explore a series of powerful trends and what they mean to the...