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Are You Suffering From Future Shock?

Phil McKinney

You might be experiencing future shock. Coined by Alvin Toffler in his book of the same name, future shock refers to disorientation and anxiety caused by too much change in a short period of time. Characteristics of Future Shock Future shock isn't just about technology. It is real.  We

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#1,557 – Baldness Curing Hat

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Millions of people who suffer from male pattern baldness hide their thinning hair and receding hairlines underneath a baseball cap. But in the near future wearing a baseball cap will do more than just hide one’s hair. For now that’s just a self defense mechanism. Something done to hide their embarrassment.

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Predictions for a post-COVID world: US economy through 2025

Jeffrey Phillips

If you've been following these posts, you'll know by now that I am extracting insights and predictions from a post-COVID scenario I drafted. I've written a number of blog posts teasing out some of the implications of the scenario and making predictions about the future. Job creation and destruction.

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Burning Platforms and Business Models - Innovation lessons from COVID

Jeffrey Phillips

Not to mention the fact that the population suffers from first world problems like obesity and a lack of regular exercise, leading to more health care issues, and we have a rapidly aging population which consumes perhaps more than its fair share of the health care expenditures. And this is the second learning for me from the pandemic.

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Why Help Employees Become Self-reliant

Tullio Siragusa

A good onboarding process might be an excellent first step, but what happens in the first year of employment shapes the future of the overall relationship. Assigning a mentor from the company to each new hire makes it easy for both the company and employee to acclimate to each other. Automate Everything.

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Unlocking your challenges and issues

Innovating4Energy

The really shocking failure at CoP26 was this. Since then Energy has gone into shock from the Russian war. The fossil fuel industry’s short-term expansion plans involve the start of oil and gas projects that will produce greenhouse gases equivalent to a decade of CO2 emissions from China, the world’s biggest polluter.

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#1,921 – Mask Wearing Vaccine

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

They just greatly reduce your chances of getting infected and suffering from severe illness. It really seemed to drive up the rate of asymptomatic infection from 40% as a standard to 81% on a cruise ship, 95% in jails, and 95% in food processing plants when they started giving masks routinely.

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