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What Happened to All of Those Green Jobs? 13 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
In 2008, during a debate that helped to vault him to the presidency, Barack Obama declared, "This is not just a challenge, it's an opportunity. Because if we create a new energy economy, we can create...
How the Energy Revolution Will Reshuffle the Global Economy 13 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
It's both a reality and cliché to say, "The world economy runs on energy." An almost unimaginable increase in GDP per capita over the past 250 years has largely resulted from the abundance of cheap en...
Direct Mail Advertising Makes a Comeback 13 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
According to the Direct Marketing Association, U.S. commercial and nonprofit marketers spent about $170 billion on direct response marketing initiatives in 2012. That was just over half of all the ad ...
China's Great Rebalancing Continues 13 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
As we've explained in previous issues of Trends, China will be forced to radically transform itself if it hopes to become more affluent. The problem is that household consumption accounts for only aro...
The Road to Age-Defying Therapies 13 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
Over the past several years, we've kept you informed about the promising potential of rapamycin as a drug that could extend human lifespans. However, the path to commercialization has not been smooth...
Moving Toward a Color-Blind Society 13 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed of a world in which race would become irrelevant and "all God's children" would be "judged by the content of their character." But, over the past decade, race has b...
Dow 75,000 by 2033 16 Jul 2013 | 09:14 pm
In previous issues, we've explored how the Digital Revolution will transform the economy. But just how much economic growth can we expect, and how will that translate into greater wealth for individua...
Getting Beyond the Student Loan Crisis 16 Jul 2013 | 09:14 pm
As freshmen enter their first year of college, most believe—along with their parents—that a college degree will guarantee a job with a better salary than they would have earned if they had gone direct...
Pre-Selling the Future 16 Jul 2013 | 09:14 pm
Consumers, philanthropists, and investors are increasingly looking to support and shape products, good works, and business ideas long before they become reality. Some time ago, our friends at Trendwa...
Synthetic Biology Moves into the Real World 16 Jul 2013 | 09:14 pm
Synthetic biology involves applying information technology to design and build living things. In the process, it will enable us to transform industries like agriculture, health care, and energy in the...
