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Start with the central banks’ rigged-markets-fueled merger-and-acquisition craze that’s created monumental wealth for the world’s very wealthy elite. Couple that with the explosion of cheap technology that’s transforming industries and economic sectors worldwide. The result: Creation of a new, dynamic playing field for innovators – the era of The OnTrendpreneur™. As we forecast for 2016:...

Virtual reality is no longer just for video gaming. The technology’s explosive use and effectiveness in educational and training settings will become so pervasive in 2017 that a foundation will be laid to use VR learning models not only in higher education and advanced training settings, but in primary education. The fast-evolving VR-ED trend is...

The future is coming! What will it look like? How will it affect your business, your family… your life? There is only one place in the world to read History Before it Happens®: The Trends Journal®, the world leader in trend forecasting. From economics to geopolitics, from real estate to retail, covering trends in over 300 categories since...

The technological wave sweeping the globe in 2017 will trigger a historic, rapid transformation of how societies live, work and play. With astonishing effect, our machines increasingly will do the thinking for us. “Big data,” computers’ ability to gather vast amounts of information in complex databases, will be stored in the limitless spheres of “The...

The daily newspaper dies in 2017. Don’t read one anyway? Why should you care? For nearly a century, fat-staffed newsrooms, populated with reporter-class curmudgeons who questioned authority at every turn and made it their life’s mission to expose the bad guys, set the agenda for public discourse. Back then, broadcast outlets didn’t have the staffing,...

It’s grander than Presidential Reality Show champion Donald Trump’s promise to “Make America Great Again.” It’s bigger than France’s presidential primary victor, François Fillon, who promises to restore “respect,” “pride” and “French values.” It’s bigger than the Austrian, Italian, Hungarian, Dutch, German, British, etc., political movements whose foundations are built on bringing back times long gone...

The economic year that was will never be again. The new economic year ahead will be like none we have ever seen before. Indeed, this time last year, we forecast that panic would hit Wall Street in 2016. And, immediately after the new year was rung in, the Dow Jones suffered one of its worst openings...

They all lost. In elections worldwide, culminating with undisputed reality-show champion Donald Trump’s victory in America’s Presidential Reality Show®, the old guard was defeated. From Brexit to Trump, to populist movements sweeping across Europe, the worldwide hunger to “Make It New” scored resounding victories. But these victories were not just reflections of the populace’s disdain...

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...