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. …

As noted last week, I made my first trip to Burning Man this year.  It became clear to me about a year ago that I had to go this year.  2012 is obviously a year much about the future so this was finally the year.  Obviously many other people felt that way as well as this year had record attendance of 62,000+ up from approximately 50,000 each of the last two years and much more than the thousands in the 1990s and the tens of thousands earlier this century.  This growth is something I will discuss in Part Two.

I have …

This is a flat out apology to all my long time readers and to all of those that have signed up for email notifications in the past two months.  It has been more than two months since my last blog post.  I have never gone more than three weeks and usually post every other week.  I apologize!

The reasons for this absence are two fold.  First I am just finishing up the epilogue and notes for my fourth book, “Entering the Shift Age”.  I have been writing it most of the year but intensively July and August.  This book is being …

In the last column I wrote about the fact that humanity has entered the Transformation Decade and then defined transformation.  I also wrote about Legacy Thinking and how we all tend to live in the present and look ahead to the future through the conceptual filters of the past.  Both concepts were relative to the reality that is Europe today.

It is clear that Europe is facing transformation both as a continent and region and that the survival of the Euro is clearly in doubt.  As promised, this column will look ahead to suggest what the future of Europe …