In the Industrial Age we lived with an economy based upon atoms.  In the Information Age we created an economy based upon bits.  The zeros and ones in the title of this column of course represent the digits upon which the Information Age is based.

On 01/01/10 I wrote a column naming the decade 2010-2020 the Transformation Decade, explaining the term and what will come to pass in this decade.  As regular readers know I believe we have left the Information Age and entered the Shift Age, hence the title of my book “The Shift Age”.  Since January first …

Fall is a time of change and new beginnings. The lazy days of summer become a memory. A new school year is upon us. The calendar marches on toward a new year.

In the past few weeks, I have begun what I refer to as my Fall Speaking Tour, during which I am constantly moving around the country, and being at home is more akin to a pit stop. I love what I do, and I love speaking to and interacting with people about the future and what lies ahead. But that is a subject for another column. This …

I travel a lot. Delivering 100+ speeches a year means I am in multiple airports most weeks of the year. This allows me to do an ongoing comparative analysis of airport design: what works, what doesn’t work, and what each city thinks travelers want and need. Many airports are just old-fashioned, out of date and only add to the struggle of travel for that group of people commonly called “road warriors.” “What were they thinking?” or, in my case, “Why didn’t they think?” are the questions that come to mind.

One way to look at this is through the filter of …

In a recent television interview I touched on some points that regular readers will realize have been forecasts I have made in this column over the past couple of years. Over a short but wide ranging interview with Chicago Fox News Anchor Bob Sirott  I touched on forecasts previously made about thrift being the new cool,  the scarring of the consumer, a lack of inflation, high unemployment and the future of e-books.

It is my job as a futurist to provoke you to think about the future and to be as accurate as possible with …