The Next Boom

“Nothing Is New and Everything Changes All the Time”

A cellular phone is an updated telephone, which is an updated telegraph, which is an updated semaphore. Teleconferencing is a form of meeting, and people have met since the dawn of time. Being able to find existing structures within new developments will help you keep your bearings amid evolving technologies and strategies that leave less-flexible thinkers behind. No business, technological, medical or educational paradigm will stay the same. Change is the status quo.

“Building Blocks”

Worldwide markets are suffering a grievous downturn. Nations hover near insolvency. Consumers are retrenching and spending less. Yet “the foundations of the ‘Next Boom’ are already being laid.” Visionaries and those looking past yesterday’s dismal financial reports will see a universe of opportunity. Boom and bust cycles have been the nature of markets ever since one human traded with another. Just as the current bust cycle is playing out its final chapter, the next boom is building. Expect a “significant, multiyear era of growth in GDP that is positive for most of the world’s modern and emerging technologies.” The boom will...