Do you need to stay ahead of the times and ahead of the competition? Who’s advising you? Can you trust them to accurately forecast what to expect and to provide you with strategies on how to plan for the future?If you need to know what the future may bring, and want to develop products, strategies...
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Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist
He developed the Globalnomic® methodology, which is used to identify, track, forecast and manage trends. In conjunction with his Trends Research Institute, Celente provides trend research studies, keynote and seminar presentations, and consulting services to businesses, associations and governments worldwide. He is a political atheist. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or conventional wisdom, Celente,...
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Our Top Trends for 2013, revisited
When we launched a series of improvements to our Trends Journal last summer, we promised you we would hold ourselves accountable for the forecasts we made and the quality and accuracy of our analyses. Here’s a look back at what we forecast a year ago and how we did. — Trends Research Institute staff The...
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Digital Learning Trendposts
• Professional education courses — Teacher re-certification programs and professional development courses will be made available in record numbers.• Summer school — Rather than sit in a brick-and-mortar classroom, high schoolers who need to re-take a class to recover credit can take the course online, whether through their local school or via an accredited online...
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Digital learning’s golden era
If you can recall the Golden Era of comic books or remember a time before anti-smoking laws all but obliterated matchbook advertising, you may have been tempted to learn to draw at home. The Famous Artists School was, perhaps, the most well known of all the correspondence schools. It offered an art and illustration course...
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How to reach “Baby Boomers”
People over 55 don’t think of themselves as being old and don’t like to be reminded that they are. Use the term “Baby Boomers” to address the “new old.” The word “seniors” is now more often applied to people in their early to mid-70s and “elders” to people in their late 70s and beyond. Don’t...
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Older adults come of age in social media
Not long ago, older folks were ridiculed as being technologically too clueless to program the clock on a DVD player. Now people 55 and older are the fastest-growing group adopting social media: more than 43 percent of Americans 65 and older are using Facebook and its cohorts, compared to just 1 percent in 2008. The...
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Outsourcing for boomers: The extended work force is here to stay. Freelancing is expected to grow sharply in the immediate years ahead. Opportunities are ripe for boomers, including writers, artists, information technology experts, market analysts, educators and financial experts. More and more boomers will enter this arena. Community causes: Community causes that are supported by...
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One man’s tale of courage and self-realization
Meet Stanley Blum. He’s 94 years old. He survived the Great Depression, World War II and 35 years in the shoe industry. Today — as a poet, painter and seeker — Blum has finally manifested his true inner self. He is engaged in a creative whirlwind of self-discovery that took off at age 80 and...