Tag: Summer2016

TOP TREND: MID-YEAR UPDATE 2016 FORECAST: In 2016, growth trends for The Personalized City strengthen. It is defined by smaller living spaces augmented by innovative transportation, as well as entertainment and services networks that tie residents and their activities closely together to meet personal wants and community needs. In effect, the city becomes their living room, kitchen, playroom...

Two trend lines are speeding toward collision, and they will create the dawn of the OnTrendpreneur™ — one is caused by the merger/acquisition craze; the other is the result of new technologies that are about to eliminate many traditional job sectors. Innovative, cutting-edge professionals who are first to identify and seize high-potential opportunities emerging in this...

Entrepreneurship is Michael Glauser’s calling. Even in high school, “I thought it would be awesome to know how to meet objectives efficiently and create great environments for people to work in,” the Utah State University business school professor says. Now, after starting six successful companies and interviewing more than 100 small-business creators for his book...

Statistically, the millennial generation’s track record of creating successful self-owned businesses is at a historic low. For this generation, the concept of entrepreneurship is about learning hard lessons to find new ways. Often centered around venture capitalists and other investors enticing them to buy into social media or other digital ventures, they are learning this...

Water shortages will severely stunt Gross Domestic Product in the Middle East, North Africa and parts of Asia by 2050 unless water-management practices are changed, according to a report from the World Bank. The Middle East could lose 14 percent of its GDP, Africa north of the Sahara Desert 12 percent, and central Asia —...

Tiny robot repairmen or therapists traveling the byways of the human body to keep its systems working have been standard futurist fare for years. Now, a team of scientists and engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology and University of Sheffield have shown how it might work. The team created what...

Chronic pain from old accidents or sports injuries is common, but until now, scientists haven’t understood why pain should persist after the injury has healed. They knew that cells involved in the immune system helped perpetuate the pain, but didn’t know how. To answer the question, researchers at King’s College London studied immune cells in...

A hurdle between plant-based engine fuel and commercial reality has been the several steps needed to process the plant materials before turning them into combustible, petroleum-lookalike liquids. Now, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are a large step closer to vaulting that barrier.   The research team engineered a strain of E. coli bacteria...

In a survey of 216,000 adolescents from all 50 states, the Washington University School of Medicine has found that marijuana use among 12- to 17-year-olds fell 24 percent from 2002 through 2013. In 2002, a little more than 16 percent of that age group reported using pot during the previous year; in 2013, the number...

The millennial generation, born between roughly 1978 and 1996 and more than 75 million strong, is now bigger than the Baby Boom. Millennials already have reshaped commerce and entertainment, and now have taken another step toward remaking politics: They’ve formed their own lobbying group. The Association of Young Americans was created in 2014 for persons...