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.
The driving force behind these successes has been the institute’s Globalnomic® methodology, developed by Celente, to identify, track, forecast and analyze trends. This technique, which analyzes global trends and critical news events through a fact-based, unbiased lens, demonstrates how trends taking shape across the globe are interconnected.
In developing the Top Trends of 2017, that global-interconnectivity principle has never been more pronounced, meaningful and relevant. From the populist waves evolving worldwide that have yet to coalesce into a focused movement, to the coming technological tsunami about to forever wipe away millions of jobs, to new opportunities emerging for on-trend entrepreneurs, to the ever-banging war drums, the essential trends that will define 2017 are truly Globalnomic®.
While the 1st Quarter 2017 Trends Journal will provide an in-depth analysis of the trends that will shape 2017, here’s an overview: