TY  - BOOK
AU  - Plunkett,Jack W.
TI  - The next boom: what you absolutely, positively have to know about the world between now and 2025 
SN  - 9781608799992
AV  - HD30.28 .P58 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Houston, Tex.
PB  - BizExecs Press
KW  - Business planning
KW  - Business forecasting
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Forecasting
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -