The next boom : what you absolutely, positively have to know about the world between now and 2025 /
Plunkett, Jack W.
The next boom : what you absolutely, positively have to know about the world between now and 2025 / Jack W. Plunkett. - Houston, Tex. : BizExecs Press, c2010. - 274 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index.
Introduction -- People. Newly born Americans, aging baby boomers and why America's soaring population is a huge advantage ; Consumers and customers; savers and spenders: what they want and how they are changing the world around you -- Places. Global trade 2.0 and the phone ladies of Bangladesh ; The global middle class and their growing mountain of money: fuel for the boom -- Things. Competition, innovation and entrepreneurship: how we're going to solve the world's biggest problems and create vast wealth in the process ; Always on, always with you and always getting smaller (or: Better, faster, smaller, cheaper) ; Energy: why things are a lot better than you might think ; Adventures in health care: $175,000 worth of proton beams and Dr. Shetty's $2,000 heart surgery -- Change. Education, generations and change -- Epilogue. 2026.
Plunkett demonstrates that we are on the verge of a period of major economic growth, and presents a panorama of carefully documented developments in areas including energy, health care, education, demographics, global trade, evolving consumer habits, technologies and the rapidly-growing global middle class.
9781608799992 1608799999
2011280025
Business planning.
Business forecasting.
Technological innovations--Forecasting.
HD30.28 / .P58 2010
The next boom : what you absolutely, positively have to know about the world between now and 2025 / Jack W. Plunkett. - Houston, Tex. : BizExecs Press, c2010. - 274 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index.
Introduction -- People. Newly born Americans, aging baby boomers and why America's soaring population is a huge advantage ; Consumers and customers; savers and spenders: what they want and how they are changing the world around you -- Places. Global trade 2.0 and the phone ladies of Bangladesh ; The global middle class and their growing mountain of money: fuel for the boom -- Things. Competition, innovation and entrepreneurship: how we're going to solve the world's biggest problems and create vast wealth in the process ; Always on, always with you and always getting smaller (or: Better, faster, smaller, cheaper) ; Energy: why things are a lot better than you might think ; Adventures in health care: $175,000 worth of proton beams and Dr. Shetty's $2,000 heart surgery -- Change. Education, generations and change -- Epilogue. 2026.
Plunkett demonstrates that we are on the verge of a period of major economic growth, and presents a panorama of carefully documented developments in areas including energy, health care, education, demographics, global trade, evolving consumer habits, technologies and the rapidly-growing global middle class.
9781608799992 1608799999
2011280025
Business planning.
Business forecasting.
Technological innovations--Forecasting.
HD30.28 / .P58 2010