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So Now What?
November 27th, 2012
It is the end of November 2012. We now know who the President of the United States will be for the next four years. We know all about the results of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. A month from now we will know that the Mayan Prophecy did not mean that the world would end. Shortly thereafter we will see how Congress and the President have done a partial or full ‘kick the can down the road’ with the fiscal cliff.
So Now What?
We can be sure that the media, with all their ever shorter news cycles and arrays of talking …
A Futurist Looks at the 2012 Election
November 11th, 2012
When the 2012 election returns came in, I was in Sydney Australia. The view was high level and from afar. This reminded me of a forecast I had made about a high level forecast of mine from far back in 2007 about the 2012 election. The specifics of the outcome were, in fact what I had suggested back then might occur.
In early 2007, when the early positioning for and coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign began, I was asked about it. It would be an historic election I ventured, as either a woman or a black man would become president. …