May 2005 Consider the following premise for a science fiction story: As humans moved beyond the stone age, they gradually started developing and using tools. Fire was discovered, and added considerably to their ability to defend themselves, and make life comfortable. Over time, people added more and more sophisticated tools to their toolboxes, and started […] Read more

February 2005 Only perverted parents would feed their children food that they knew was poisoned. Yet, many parents poison their children physically, emotionally, and spiritually through inaction and indifference, and are sometimes even aware that they are doing so. Nor should we blame parents alone, for we are all responsible for permitting the emergence of […] Read more

August 2004 Innovation is the hot topic of the 2000s, and with good reason. An organization’s success at innovation will determine whether they pick up market share and thrive, or shed customers and go bust. It is the key to both survival and success. But much as ‘total quality management’ became the management buzz word […] Read more

October 2003 I’ve often found that telling people what tomorrow may be like is not as clear or as effective as illustrating what I mean with a vignette or story set in the future. What follows is one of the vignettes that I originally wrote for my newly published book, Who Owns Tomorrow? 7 Secrets […] Read more

July 2000 Just for some summer fun, I thought I’d answer some of the questions I get along the lines of: ‘What happened to the glorious future we were promised 25 years ago?’ Why don’t we have a 25 hour work week and 8 weeks of vacation? George Jetson worked at Spacely Sprockets. He arrived […] Read more

May 2000 ‘Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.’ – ‘The Second Coming’ by William Butler Yeats Shortly before Christmas, 1999, I was contacted by a reporter for a Dallas newspaper. His ‘beat’ was religion and spirituality, and he was doing an article on the future of morality. He’d seen some of the articles on […] Read more

April 2000 The anti-gravity economy: Are recessions a thing of the past? There are three major structural changes in the U.S. and global economies that will change the patterns of recession and recovery, and that have significant implications for you and your business. The first is that the mechanism that used to trigger a recession […] Read more