October 2003

I’ve often found that telling people what tomorrow may be like is not as clear or as effective as illustrating what I mean with a vignette or story set in the future. What follows is one of the vignettes that I originally wrote for my newly published book, Who Owns Tomorrow? 7 Secrets for the Future of Business (Penguin, Toronto: 2003). Unfortunately, as I had to edit out about 40,000 words to pare the manuscript down to size, this vignette wound up on the cutting room floor. It illustrates many of my thoughts about the future of retailing, but also of the living, watching world that will surround us, and that we will take for granted.

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July 2000

Just for some summer fun, I thought I’d answer some of the questions I get along the lines of: ‘What happened to the glorious future we were promised 25 years ago?’

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May 2000

‘Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.’ - ‘The Second Coming’ by William Butler Yeats

Shortly before Christmas, 1999, I was contacted by a reporter for a Dallas newspaper. His ‘beat’ was religion and spirituality, and he was doing an article on the future of morality. He’d seen some of the articles on my website, and an article written about me in a magazine, and called me to ask if I had any thoughts about the future of morality. As it happens, I’ve given this quite a bit of thought, and was able to reply right away that the future of morality was self-discipline.

He seemed surprised, both that I had a ready answer, and that it was something so simple as self-discipline, so I explained.

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April 2000

The anti-gravity economy: Are recessions a thing of the past?

There are three major structural changes in the U.S. and global economies that will change the patterns of recession and recovery, and that have significant implications for you and your business.

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