Tag: fall2013

Since the days of pre-antiquity, people of every culture and society have crafted objects and devices for the sole purpose of entertainment. From Senet, the ancient Egyptian board game, to dice, cards and on to Wii U, ingenuity and creativity have been poured into ways to escape the rigors of daily life. Video games, a...

Here’s a scorecard on some of the bold predictions made more than a decade ago in Gerald Celente’s groundbreaking book, Trends 2000 (Warner Books, 1997), and how those forecasts are evolving today. In this Trending feature, we hold Celente accountable. Prediction: The health/fitness/nutrition trend will go into an accelerated growth stage driven by an aging...

Prediction: The health/fitness/nutrition trend will go into an accelerated growth stage driven by an aging baby-boom population.Result: Back then Whole Foods was not a national name. Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers were all people knew about losing weight. Nutrition was something that only “health nuts” cared about. The  fitness biz has now become a staple...

Since the days of pre-antiquity, people of every culture and society have crafted objects and devices for the sole purpose of entertainment. From Senet, the ancient Egyptian board game, to dice, cards and on to Wii U, ingenuity and creativity have been poured into ways to escape the rigors of daily life. Video games, a...

It’s been nearly 15 years since Jared Fogle famously lost a couple hundred pounds on a diet of Subway sandwiches, introducing us all to the improbable notion that fast food could be good for you. Yet there he was, 6’2’’ and a trim 200 pounds. It seemed almost preposterous that an American fast food eatery...

Just when it seemed that Washington was getting back to “normal,” President Obama’s most cherished accomplishment, The Affordable Health Care Act, exploded on the launch pad.  Love or hate it, in the history of The United States of America, no federal program crashed, burned and bombed as badly as “Obamacare.” From day one, the nearly billion-dollar...

Social media and the Internet technologies that have enabled them constitute the largest disruptions to business communications since Gutenberg’s invention of the press. These technologies are bringing with them new approaches to the creation of value, and transforming the relationships between the creators of goods and services and those who consume them.

We’ve always had social media. Sitting around a campfire telling stories is fundamentally social, with the air around our heads being the medium carrying human voices. Denizens of 16th-century Florence and Rome were known to tie notes to sculptures, expressing their approval or criticism — creating what were, perhaps, some of the earliest bulletin boards....

NATO has gone on too long.  The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established on April 4, 1949, as a defensive alliance whose purpose was to defend Western Europe in the event of a Soviet invasion. As NATO’s first secretary general put it, NATO was formed in order to keep the Russians out of Western Europe...

Positive change will occur when a critical mass finds:• The courage to admit they are living a lie.• The courage to admit they’ve been conned by political con artists and manipulated by a Presstitute media.• The courage to never again submit to those of inferior intellect and rampant immorality who hold high office, or to...