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 …

Europe is moving into a time of incredible transformation. The financial and leadership crises in Europe need to be looked at from a historically high level.  The media coverage and commentary concerning the Euro crisis is completely “in the weeds”.  The coverage and discussion of the issues in Europe now are about austerity versus growth, Germany versus the rest of Europe,  Greek politics and whether Greece will leave the Euro zone or not.  Focusing on the treatment of the symptoms rather than the generic reason for the disease. The football metaphor for this level of analysis is the analysis of …

I am frequently asked about what technology I carry and use.  This is due in large part because I am a futurist and to many people technology and the future are close to synonymous.  That of course is not wholly true, but certainly understandable as it is technology that seems to trigger the changes in our lives.

In addition I often have conversations with people who, like me, travel a lot about what technology works best on the road.  So here is what I use, like, travel with and therefore heartily recommend as action speaks louder than words.  Of course the …