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At Transition Economics 2014, we’ll be dealing with information about major strategic change in everything from education to energy. But this isn’t going to be a boring old conference will stale power points. The event is to be held at the Regional Arts Commission Studio, right across from The Moonrise Hotel in the Delmar Loop district, so we asking all …
Infrastructure destruction. Week-long power outages. Gas shortages. Stressed people. Harried and overwhelmed public officials. Two weeks ago, if you asked Americans which country this described, they would have indicated somewhere in Africa or Haiti – you know, one of those poor countries. They would not have believed that you meant the New York Metropolitan Area, the greatest concentration of wealth in the …
I’m kind of excited to see what becomes of the Global Trends 2030 project, an official futurist project run by the United States National Intelligence Council about the potential future scenarios for international security. Global Trends 2025 absolutely sucked. It was the perfect expression of the idiot mindset of the Bush Administration, a small, scared waste of money that led …
There is a lot of chatter in the news from the neo-cornucopians about how “wait, resource scarcity was merely a false alarm, there’s more than enough resources to keep growth going for years – like lots of new oil!” When you read the fine print, it turns out that the “new oil reserves” make very little mention of how much …