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TRENDS INSIGHTS

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Trends: The Future of Just About Everything is All About Batteries!

Want to understand the future? It’s all about the batteries! My attention was reminded of this fact last week with an article that appeared on Bloomberg, “Tech Guru Bill Joy Unveils a Battery to Rival Lithium-Ion,” which brought me back to a series of Twitter posts I did a few months back about trends involving […]

Golfing, 3D Printing, and the Future of Manufacturing: A Story of a Fellow Printing His Own Golf Wedges

Over the years, I’ve done many talks within the manufacturing industry, putting into perspective the real trends and opportunities for innovation that will allow for reinvention of this sector. Lots of CEOs are bringing me in for a leadership meeting, knowing that their future will come from aligning to fast paced trends (as opposed to […]

The Story Behind the Picture: “You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: 54 Things You Haven’t Thought About with Self-Driving Cars”

Your car is about to become your concierge. A personal robot. And so much more. You probably don’t have a lot of time to think about all the things that are going on with the rush to self-driving cars and electric vehicles. I do – that’s my job as a futurist. The things is, you […]

Trend: Where will the Future Really Happen? 2 Upcoming Keynotes on The Real Future, Not the Fake Future

We seem to live in two parallel worlds at this moment: the fanciful, political, “let’s make a wish” or “yell and scream” political world, and the real world. I don’t know about you, but I’m with the real world, and it’s obvious that others are too. To that end, I’m doing an increasing number of economic […]

Upcoming Keynote: Future of Retail (in the era of Amazonian Disruption!)

This fall, I’m headling a major retail event in Las Vegas – Xcelerate 2017! Details are here. There’s a lot of change underway – and certainly, the Amazon/Whole Foods situation is a wake up call for everyone. I’ve been speaking about the decline and transformation of traditional retail for over 20 years. In the […]

Video On Disruption: 20 Reasons Why It’s Bigger Than You Think!

Here’s the thing. Disruption isn’t just Uber and AirBnB and others. It’s more. It’s fast science, robotics, 3d printing, exponential technology, new materials, big dreamers, the rise of the small and so much more! Watch this video NOW. Disruption is real, it’s happening now, is is much bigger than you think!

The Story Behind the Picture: Is Your Brand from The Olden Days?

“A brand today can go from hero to zero in a matter of months….” In that context, you’d better get ahead of the fast future, before it gets ahead of you! Consider Sony. Once they were a really cool company with the coolest technology on the planet — the Walkman. Then they weren’t, because they didn’t […]

Keynote @Nasscom2017: Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast: Innovating in the Era of Disruption

I’m off to New York, where tomorrow I will be the closing speaker at Nasscom’s inaugaural C-summit The National Association of Software and Services Companies is a trade association representing the major players in the Indian IT and business process outsourcing industry. The event is taking a look at future trends and opportunities for innovation, […]

The Story Behind the Picture: Expect Velocity – Are You Thinking Fast Enough?

Back in 2006, I keynoted the Society of Cable Telecom Engineers at their annual conference in Tampa. At the time, YouTube was only just beginning to have an impact, and social networking was still in a nascent stage. It was January — Twitter wasn’t even around! My job was to alert them that forthcoming trends […]

Trends: What Comes Next with the Decline of an Empire?

It’s about time someone starts to talk about the future implications of the new world history that we are now watching unfold. I decided to write this post after reading of Angela’s Merkel recent comments on the fact that Europe needs to go it alone. Quite clearly, she is voicing what many other political, business, […]

Article: Innovate now—the future is coming quickly : Five strategies for successful innovation.

Credit Union Magazine just ran a great article on my keynote yesterday in Las Vegas for Drive 17, the annual conference from CU Direct on trends in the automotive lending space for credit unions. Self-driving cars, drone technology, Apple Watch, and even FaceTime. It’s technology we see depicted in “The Jetsons,” a cartoon from 1962 […]

A Keynote on Credit Unions and the Future of Automotive Lending

Tomorrow morning, I’ll keynote Drive 17 — it’s a conference for credit union executives around the topic of the future of lending. Particularly, automative lending. This is similar to a keynote I did in January of this year for the American Financial Services Association — same topic and issues, except for banking executives. It’s a […]