The Impact of Retiring Boomers
For a few years now, Robert Kiyosaki (and many futurists and economists), have been predicting that when the Baby Boomers start to access their retirements funds, there will be a huge impact on the financial markets. Right now, Boomers are in more debt than any...
Stories – The markers to our history
For millennia Stories and the telling of stories have been central to human existence. From the Hunter-Gathers who told of the day’s conquests around the fire, to friends who tell of what they were doing in December 2004 the exact minute the Tsunami hit while on...
Where to now?
I've always said that the people who sell bottled water, especially in countries that have perfectly good water in their taps, are genius. They've taken what is essentially a very cheap commodity and applied sufficient marketing spin in orer to increase the price, by...
Where to now?
I've always said that the people who sell bottled water, especially in countries that have perfectly good water in their taps, are genius. They've taken what is essentially a very cheap commodity and applied sufficient marketing spin in orer to increase the price, by...
Predictable Surprise: China has a labour shortage!
For a number of years, the futurists in TomorrowToday.biz have been saying that although there is some short term pain around offshoring to India and China, that the overall trend was not sustainable. Simple supply and demand logic indicated that a threshhold would be...
USAAF and fuel consumption
In an age of expensive petrol and attempts to reduce carbon emissions, it seems that even the US Air Force.has to now do something. According to an article in the New York Times, an F-16 lights up its afterburners, it consumes nearly 28 gallons of fuel per minute. No...
Life Among The Dinosaurs
Here is a great article on newspapers. Worldwide, the newspaper industry is in such a complete state of denial that it is almost tragic. Enough of them are having a few successes with some of what they are currently trying for them to think that the digital age is...
Download the whole internet?
I am sure many of us have wished at times that we could have the "whole Internet" on our hard drives. Of course we know its impossible, the Internet in 2003 weighed in at approx 90 million gigs, a little more than most hard drives. So, to solve this problem, a...
Enviromental Advocacy is a good cause for retirees
I found an interesting article about people with skills, vision and passion ready to use their skills to help change society. To quote from the back of David Bornstein's book called How to change the World we are challenged by " What business entrepreneurs are to the...
6 Jobs that wont exist in 10 years time
One of the scarier predictions for someone in a life-long career could easily be Tom Peters suggesting that 90% of white collar jobs wont exist in 2010. Here are Six jobs that Wont exist in 2016: 1) Gatekeepers 2) Bloggers 3) Amateur Ad Makers 4) Car Mechanics 5) US...
4 Predictions abut the future of work
FastCompany has an article in their March issue, 'Fealress Predicitons (and what to do about them)'. These are their 4 predicitons about the future of work: 1) No Benefits, Better Jobs 2) Blue Collar Gets Sexy 3) Everything Global is Local 4) One-Stop Shopping Will...
The un-CEO
TomorrowToday.biz got a CEO last year. We elected someone within our ranks to take on the title of CEO. Essentially we wanted to know we had one person that the buck stopped at. Outside of that we've had a hard time working out what else we wanted our new CEO to do....
The un-CEO
TomorrowToday.biz got a CEO last year. We elected someone within our ranks to take on the title of CEO. Essentially we wanted to know we had one person that the buck stopped at. Outside of that we've had a hard time working out what else we wanted our new CEO to do....
Men should have more say
Should men have more choice when it comes to unintended pregnancy? In the US, the National Centre for Men is filling a lawsuit on behalf of Matt Dubay who has been ordered to pay child support for his ex-girlfriends daughter. Matt's ex-girlfriend assured him she...
Project Origami
Microsoft has been tight lipped for some time about its latest offering in the PC realm. They finally took the wraps off this week and presented the latest PC offering at CeBIT. The computer is called the ultra mobile PC, why you may ask. Well it is about the size of...
Six Jobs that wont be around in 2016
In an article from Fast Company, they have cited six jobs that they think wont exist in 2016. Well, their list is interesting, but lets just think about this for a minute. How many jobs that were critical at the turn of the century, dont exist today. Much money and...
Let's have a drink together….from opposite sides of the world
The latest edition of New Scientist magazine has an article [read it online here] on glasses that have been invented by MIT that allow lovers to drink together from remote locations. The glasses are fitted our with LED's, liquid sensors, and wi-fi connectivity. When...
Let’s have a drink together….from opposite sides of the world
The latest edition of New Scientist magazine has an article [read it online here] on glasses that have been invented by MIT that allow lovers to drink together from remote locations. The glasses are fitted our with LED's, liquid sensors, and wi-fi connectivity. When...
Let’s have a drink together….from opposite sides of the world
The latest edition of New Scientist magazine has an article [read it online here] on glasses that have been invented by MIT that allow lovers to drink together from remote locations. The glasses are fitted our with LED's, liquid sensors, and wi-fi connectivity. When...
Potholes in the Global Road
This is a great article . Read it here. The blurb says: "Globalisation has been a great liberator — but it also poses a threat to Western professionals". As a group some of us at TomorrowKnowledge are reading " The World is Flat " by Thomas Friedman. It is a book I...