Tag: Winter2017

While most trends follow the predictable life cycle of being born, growing, maturing, reaching old age and dying, some — war, religious fanaticism and nationalistic rivalries — never die. And as evidenced by Donald Trump’s words and deeds as a candidate and president, “Crusades 2000” — a trend I first forecast in our Fall 1993...

From coast to coast, no living American has witnessed anything like it.The United States is a nation divided in ways and on issues broader than the Civil Rights movements, the massive Vietnam War protests and Richard Nixon’s impeachment of decades past. Since January 20, when Donald Trump was inaugurated president, protest marches championing a myriad...

The Trends Journal was the first and only publication in the world to forecast that business mogul and reality TV star Donald J. Trump would win the 2016 presidential race. In the May 2016 Trends Journal, we forecast: “Barring an ongoing barrage of self-inflicted wounds, despite his bluster, missteps, misquotes and numerous distortions of truth...

It is as big as the end of Prohibition in 1933. If the marijuana-legalization movement continues on its current track, and the Trends Research Institute forecasts that it will, pot’s future is indeed bright. It had a watershed performance at America’s ballot boxes in November. Today, recreational or medical marijuana use is legal in 28...

With stress levels and angry debate escalating all around us, where can we find a place for engaging conversation, sensual aesthetics and the keys to a more peaceful mindset? Turns out the philosophical insights taught by ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus at his personal home and garden are influencing important trends here in the 21st century....

For nearly 40 years, forecaster Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute have established and sustained a remarkable track record accurately forecasting powerful, game-changing trends in economics, geopolitics, health, education, technology, aging, pop culture and more. Each year, the institute publishes a list of the top trends for year ahead. The Top Trends of 2017...

There’s a pall over the mall. The decline of shopping malls is a trend we forecast in 1997 when we warned that in the coming decades the mall culture would degenerate, and dying Main Street would be reborn. Now is the time for innovative OnTrendpreneurs™ to seize widening market gaps left by the decline of malls....

For 25 years, Randell Mills has been quietly preparing to end the Fossil Fuel Age. Now he’s ready. On Oct. 26, 2016, he gathered his team of scientists, engineers and manufacturing partners at his lab in a suburban smear of industrial and office buildings outside of Princeton, New Jersey. They revealed the latest version of...

Unsafe water. Poisoned water. Scarce resources for water worldwide in an era of rising temperatures, prolonged droughts and extreme weather. Exploding populations that demand water far exceeding dwindling supply.Water-delivery systems around the globe rotting away, having outlived their infrastructures by decades. And, drying up and rotting away just as fast, public funding to ensure safe,...

Hepatitis C is a virus that destroys your liver – and the pace at which it’s infecting more and more of us around the world, especially America’s Baby Boomers, is growing rapidly. In fact, the rate of infection is the US grew by more than 150 percent from 2010 to 2013 and shows no signs...