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The Emerging Tri-Pol |
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| Consider the big picture, as we��쫣e laid it out in previous issues of Trends:
瑗� The population of the developed world is rapidly aging.
瑗� The United States is the only advanced nation where the workforce is forecasted to grow over the next 50 years.
瑗� The populations of the EU and Japan are actually expected to shrink over that time period.
瑗� Even China is rapidly aging and the size of its workforce will peak around 2025.
瑗� At the same time, Latin America, India, the Middle East, and Africa all have young, rapidly growing populations of under-utilized workers and under-served consumers. |
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Science Explores the |
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| Happy employees stay with their employers longer, and generally are more productive than unhappy employees. Happy customers stick with their suppliers longer, and typically buy more. |
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Personal Jets Disrup |
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| According to The Wall Street Journal,1 travel in private jets will triple in the next 10 years with the introduction of what is being referred to as very light jet, or VLJ, aircraft. |
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Digital Books Start |
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| Since at least the 1960s and possibly earlier, we��셶e been hearing predictions about the demise of paper. Xerox famously, and disastrously, attempted to create the ��쐏aperless office��� in the 1970s. If anything, we use more paper now than ever, owing to the ease of running off copies with laser printers and copiers. |
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America"s Moral |
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| Anyone who watches television or goes to the movies is aware that traditional moral standards are out of place in Hollywood��셲 version of America. Television shows like Desperate Housewives and The Sopranos, and films like Brokeback Mountain would make you think traditional standards of fidelity, honesty, and sexuality are as out-of-step with 21st century America as horse collars and mechanical adding machines. But do Hollywood��셲 products reflect cultural values in the real world? |
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