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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Migrant crisis: Pass the blame
The numbers don’t lie. The politicians do and the media swears to it. Go back to 2010. Look at the charts. Only a few thousand migrants were crossing the Mediterranean to seek safe passage in Italy and Malta. Four years and several wars later, over 170,000 landed last year and 4,828 drowned in transit. Who’s...
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