THE DATA INDUSTRIES TIPPING POINT
Like a crisp fall evening where the chill in the air instinctively tells you the season is about to change, the data industry feels like it has just hit its tipping point. And despite the odorous smell coming from Facebook and it’s questionable ties to Cambridge Analytica, and the manipulation of the American election, this […]
DNA SEQUENCING – THE FOUNDATION OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE COMMODOTIZES
Right up near the top of the list of wise things your Grandmother used to tell you was something like “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Turns out, she had it absolutely right. Yet even in her wildest dreams, there is little possibility she would have realized, the extent that saying […]
THE INEVITABLE MARCH TOWARDS OUTSOURCED SELF CARE
American politicians may have done their best to try and kill Obamacare, and while the fate of 11 million Americans health care coverage may be tested once again after the 2016 U.S. election, one thing is becoming clearly unstoppable – there is an inevitable move afoot towards outsourced health diagnosis and self-care. Service industries, such as the […]
3D PRINTED HOUSES COMING TO A LAKE NEAR YOU
Disruptive Technology: a new technology that unexpectedly displaces an established technology. When talking about technology, disruptive technology in particular, investors often look for a tenfold change in productivity or costs. While those kinds of gains have been appearing in the software industry for sometime now, improvements in large-scale material goods have proven more difficult – […]
Will Peak Jobs be the same as Peak Oil?
About 10 years ago there was a popular theory floating around that the world had hit peak oil production. According to the logic, we had discovered all the oil that was discoverable, and due to the demographics of the Third World rapidly industrializing, oil prices had nowhere to go but up – forever But that’s […]
QUESTIONING THE NEXT 10 YEARS OF SOCIAL CHANGE – PART 1
Clients sometimes ask me for examples of “social change” that we can expect in the next 10 years – especially after my comment that the social change over the next 10 years will exceed that of the last 100 years. So for this post and the next one, let’s look at how social change is […]
Improving Your Mental Powers
I took a really good break about a few weeks ago and spent some time on the beach in Jamaica. The financial business is a stressful one as there are 101 things to do every day with a people counting on you to get it all right. The downtime was great and one of the […]
We Have Seen Big Brother (and he will be us)
Face recognition is one technology that is going to have major privacy ramifications in the future. It is wise for everyone to have an understanding as to where this is heading so that they can protect themselves today through proper Privacy Settings on services they use on the Internet. This will play out with the […]