While the auto industry and its high-tech partners continue to tout driverless vehicles as a reality just a few years away, Trends Research Institute tracking shows there are many roadblocks that ensure fully autonomous cars are not imminent. Now, Micro, a cybersecurity firm, is warning against an “indefensible” vulnerability in computer systems that control smart...
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Brick-and-mortar retail poised for an On-trend comeback
Brick-and-mortar businesses, emphasizing quality and value delivered with a human touch, will grow stronger in the months and years ahead as chains continue their downward spiral. The dramatic decline of shopping malls, a trend we forecast in 1997 when we warned that mall culture would degenerate in coming decades, often is attributed to online shopping’s...
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Your global economic trends update: What you need to know
The Trends Journal was the only magazine in the world to first forecast a Trump White House win and then predict “The Trump Market Rally.” Wait until you see what’s coming next – forecasts only Trends Journal subscribers will receive. Want to know where equity and cryptocurrency markets are heading? Not only do we show and tell...
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Cryptos: Millennial gold
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, like many business-establishment peers who persistently sound the death knell for cryptocurrencies, is wrong. As the Trends Research Institute has been forecasting, volatility in digital currencies will continue. Some offerings will crash. But the long-term trend is a crypto, not a fiat-currency-driven, future. It’s a new world millennial order; cash...
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The technology of electric cars has not been mastered. In particular, the problem of recharging the new energy vehicles on a daily basis is a sticking point. While various technologies, from electric highways to solar-electricity panels on cars’ roofs, are being tested, the power problem will persist. Predictions that within a decade, electric-vehicle drivers will...
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Presidential reality show
Here’s a special gift for our subscribers… Artist Anthony Freda’s powerful illustration of the cast and players of the Presidential Reality Show, complemented by Celente’s Dysfunctional State of the Union address.
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Cryptocurrencies: Flying high or fading fast?
Editors Note: As we go to press, cryptocurreny markets are in another stage of extreme volatility following China’s decision to shut down local exchanges. Despite erratic swings, whether in stocks, housing or cryptos, when values rapidly rise, there are always sharp market corrections. We maintain our forecast that cryptocurencies are a long term trend, not...
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Trend Forecast
As more nations worldwide go cashless, and the range of new cryptocurrency offerings widens, the participation among the general public to purchase digital currencies and investors to invest in them increases. But the speed at which digital currency investment is increasing worldwide is prompting governments to intervene, seeking to regulate, control or cease the growth...
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A primer on blockchaining: The technology behind digital currency
Blockchaining. The technology is complex, but here’s a simple outline. A “block” is a record of a transaction between two people that’s permanently stored in a database. The database is encrypted so the record of transactions can never be hacked or altered. A “chain” is a series of blocks stored in time sequence. (Think of...
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Will we get our brains and minds back into better balance in time? This will depend in large part on whether we allow ourselves to continue being trapped behind the psychological wall of anger, ego gratification, fear and dismissiveness — or choose to reflect on a “bigger picture” of who we are and how we...