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-	Fast-Dying Industries	July 2008
-	Robotic Suits Amplify Human Capabilities	July 2008
-	Robots Are Set to Overhaul Service Industries	July 2008
-	Leadership's Online Labs	July 2008
-	The Dumbest Generation	July 2008
-	Deleveraging the American Consumer Sector	July 2008
-	Graphene Promises to Revolutionize Nanotech	June 2008
-	Disruptive Innovation Meets the American Education Crisis	June 2008
-	The Online Video Stampede	June 2008
-	Infotech Everywhere	June 2008
-	Global Consolidation	June 2008
-	Gross National Happiness and National Priorities	June 2008
-	Quantum Computing Hype Meets Reality	May 2008
-	Growing New Human Limbs	May 2008
-	Brain Fitness Becomes a Hot Industry	May 2008
-	The Internet of 2020 Takes Shape	May 2008
-	The U.S. Remains #1 in Global Competitiveness	May 2008
-	Don't Panic - the Best Is Yet to Come	May 2008
-	Voting with Our Feet	April 2008
-	America's Foreign Investment Boom	April 2008
-	The Great Network Inflection Point Is Just Ahead	April 2008
-	Let the Games Begin	April 2008
-	The Death of Mass Luxury?	April 2008
-	The Stagflation Illusion	April 2008
-	Firms Proactively Manage Demographic Risk	April 2008
-	Big Opportunities in Nanomedicine	March 2008
-	Unbundled Business Models May Dramatically Enhance Economic Growth	March 2008
-	Competitive Advantage Through Better Tacit Interactions	March 2008
-	Competing on Analytics	March 2008
-	The Rapidly Evolving Workplace	March 2008
-	Off-Shoring Gets Personal	March 2008
-	The Sky Is the Limit for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles	March 2008
-	The Future of Marriage in America	February 2008
-	Recycling the Petrodollar Tsunami	February 2008
-	The End of Cheap Food?	February 2008
-	Good Bacteria Goes Mainstream	February 2008
-	Manufacturing Nanotech Wonders	February 2008
-	The New Automotive Paradigm	February 2008
-	China's Future Labor Market	February 2008
-	Voters Decide Between Free Markets and the Welfare State in 2008	January 2008
-	Poverty in America Loses Its Meaning	January 2008
-	The Long, Slow Road Back for Residential Real Estate	January 2008
-	Free Trade, Off-Shoring, and Immigration	January 2008
-	Generational Productivity and Spending Waves - the 2020 Vision	January 2008
-	The Global Wealth Explosion	January 2008
-	Strong U.S. Employment Continues	December 2007
-	The Inevitable Confrontation with Iran	December 2007
-	The Biofuels Offensive	December 2007
-	The Battery Revolution	December 2007
-	Personalized Medicine	December 2007
-	Medical Tourism	December 2007
-	Pieces of the Quantum Computing Puzzle Materialize	December 2007
-	The Global Debt Machine Digests Another Crisis	November 2007
-	American Manufacturing Renaissance	November 2007
-	The Growing Panic Over a "North American Union"	November 2007
-	European Malaise	November 2007
-	America's Coming Healthcare Debate	November 2007
-	The Fountain of Youth Seems to Be at Hand	November 2007
-	Home-Shoring Leverages the 30-Second Commute	October 2007
-	Personalized Video Ads	October 2007
-	A.I. Is Forced to Accept Its Limitations	October 2007
-	The Next Big Thing in Outer Space May Be Quite Small	October 2007
-	The Pet Economy Roars Ahead	October 2007
-	Boomers Go "Hog Wild"	October 2007
-	The Incredible Shrinking Deficit	October 2007
-	Video Games Rewire Gen Y Brains	September 2007
-	Shedding Light on the Gathering Darkness of Alzheimer's Disease	September 2007
-	Millennials Become an Important Market Force	September 2007
-	Generation X Builds Wealth and Influence	September 2007
-	Active Baby Boomers Set America's Economic Pace	September 2007
-	Seniors: The Most Underestimated Market	September 2007
-	Managing Demography	September 2007
-	The Hydrogen Economy: Don't Give Up Hope	August 2007
-	Wrongful Dismissal and the Vital Importance of Hiring the Right People	August 2007
-	Recommendation Engines Rev Up	August 2007
-	Web Apps Transform the Software Industry	August 2007
-	The Cashless Society	August 2007
-	The Era of Personalization, Customization, and Co-Production	August 2007
-	The Great "Stock Market Bubble" of China	July 2007
-	A Car Next to Every Hut	July 2007
-	The Transformational Potential of Mesh Networks	July 2007
-	Educational Gaming Has All the Right "MUVEs"	July 2007
-	Network Data Mining	July 2007
-	Driving on the Information Super Highway	July 2007
-	The Boom in Network Business Models	July 2007
-	Moore's Law Just Keeps Rolling Along	June 2007
-	Automating Innovation: When Technology Starts Inventing More Technology	June 2007
-	The Supposed Tragedy of American Consumption	June 2007
-	Resilience: The New Strategic Imperative	June 2007
-	The Panic du Jour	June 2007
-	Campus Values Battle Moves to the Dorm Room	May 2007
-	Manufacturing Human Organs	May 2007
-	The Information Highway in the Sky	May 2007
-	Virtual Meetings Take Center Stage	May 2007
-	Mash It Up and Roll It Out	May 2007
-	Web 2.0 Arrives and Shadows of Web 3.0 Appear on the Horizon	May 2007
-	The Single-Serving Size Reality	April 2007
-	The Transgenic Revolution	April 2007
-	Digital Tailors Start Sewing Up the Custom Apparel Market	April 2007
-	Expert Systems Quietly Add Big Value	April 2007
-	The Online Video Bonanza	April 2007
-	Open Business: The New Reality	April 2007
-	The Entrepreneurial Surge Gains Momentum	April 2007
-	Video Games Redefine the Media Universe	March 2007
-	Electric Vehicle 2.0	March 2007
-	VoIP Hits the Big Time	March 2007
-	The Hyper-Transparency Challenge	March 2007
-	The Business Intelligence Revolution	March 2007
-	The New Entrepreneurial Generation	March 2007
-	Today's Consumers Can't Get No "Status-Faction"	March 2007
-	Oil Sands: The Near-Term Strategic Energy Solution	February 2007
-	The Quiet Boom in Solar Technology	February 2007
-	Application Simulation Bridges the Gulf Between Business and I.T.	February 2007
-	Electronic Health Records Revolutionize Healthcare	February 2007
-	In 2007, the American Economy Revives While the Global Boom Accelerates	February 2007
-	Finding Profits with Geographic Information Systems	January 2007
-	Nanotechnology Marches On	January 2007
-	The RFID Revolution Evolves	January 2007
-	The Rise of Confrontational Atheism	January 2007
-	The Ever-Expanding Metaverse	January 2007
-	Corporate America Embraces Social Networking	January 2007
-	The Shifting Tide of Global Economic Power Towards China	January 2007
-	Information Factories: The Backbone of a New Technology Era	December 2006
-	Loyalty Programs Evolve	December 2006
-	3-D TV Moves Toward Reality	December 2006
-	Artificial Hearts - The Beat Goes On	December 2006
-	Corporate Universities Graduate to the Next Level	December 2006
-	The Sweet Smell of Success	December 2006
-	Affinity-Based Fraud	December 2006
-	Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds	November 2006
-	Businesses, New and Old, Are Finding Wealth with the "Wiki Business Model"	November 2006
-	The Information Revolution Inches Toward the World's Poorest People	November 2006
-	Genomic Technologies Emerge as the Answer to World Hunger	November 2006
-	Young Workers Can't Advance Because of the Gray Ceiling	November 2006
-	A Private Equity Bubble Is the Next Threat to Your Wealth	November 2006
-	They're Building an Elevator to Heaven	November 2006
-	Retail Packaging Strives to Serve Many Masters	October 2006
-	Global Migration Is Reaching a Crisis Point	October 2006
-	Working in the 21st Century	October 2006
-	Robots that Feel Our Pain	October 2006
-	Americans Deal with Loneliness	October 2006
-	American Cities Shed the Middle Class	October 2006
-	Anti-Science and Pseudo-Science	October 2006
-	The Truly Super Supergrid	September 2006
-	Learning to Learn from Failure	September 2006
-	Mr. Grandmom	September 2006
-	Science Is Profoundly Changing the Dynamics of Bioterrorism	September 2006
-	Rampant E-Mail Stock Fraud	September 2006
-	The Lean, Mean World Economy, Brought to You by Wal-Mart	September 2006
-	The Radio Frequency Spectrum Explosion	October 2004
-	Quantum Computing Addresses Today's "Insoluble" Problems	October 2004
-	Gone Phishing	November 2004
-	Business Dress Becomes More Formal	November 2004
-	Housing Boom Peaks Out, But No Collapse Yet	November 2004
-	Geothermal Energy Is the Next "Hot" Energy	November 2004
-	Reaching Next-Generation Consumers Where They Work and Buy	November 2004
-	The Great 21st Century Boom	January 2005
-	It's the Values, Stupid	January 2005
-	A New Social Contract for a New Era	January 2005
-	Think of Real Estate as your "Last Resort"	January 2005
-	The Booming Exurbs	January 2005
-	The On-Line Advertising Boom	January 2005
-	The Name Game	January 2005
-	Stocks Are Headed Higher in 2005	February 2005
-	Key Tax Rates Are Now Returning to Their Historic Norms, with Significant Upside Implications for the Economy	February 2005
-	Just What the Doctor Ordered for the Ailing Portfolio	February 2005
-	You Can Safely Ignore Pundits Suffering from "Current Account Deficit Disorder"	February 2005
-	New Tools Help Harness the Information Explosion	February 2005
-	On-Line Libraries, Classes, and Textbooks Promise to Redefine Education Globally	February 2005
-	Enabled by Technology and Driven by Economics, the Dispersion of the U.S. Population Is transforming Our Nation	February 2005
-	Reconfigurable Computing Reconfigures How We Compute	March 2005
-	Mending a Broken Heart with Stem Cells	March 2005
-	RNA Runs Interference for New Therapeutic Solutions	March 2005
-	Self-Esteem Is a Real "Downer"	March 2005
-	The Female Career "Opt-Out" Option	May 2005
-	The Decline of Labor Unions	May 2005
-	The Looming Doctor Shortage	May 2005
-	Giving Al Queda a Real Pain	May 2005
-	Marketing to the "Tweeners"	May 2005
-	Selling to the Military Is Big Business	May 2005
-	Shifting Ideology on College Campuses	May 2005
-	From Here to Immortality	June 2005
-	The Flat Tax Cometh	June 2005
-	School Vouchers Will Transform Education	June 2005
-	The Looming China Crisis	June 2005
-	Carbon Nanotube Electronics Extend Moore's Law	June 2005
-	The Entrepreneurial Explosion	April 2005
-	Nano-Tech Is Still Brewing	April 2005
-	Internet Gambling Jackpot	April 2005
-	Multi-Core Processors	April 2005
-	The Product Piracy Nightmare	April 2005
-	The Incredible Merger Surge	April 2005
-	India Is Coming	April 2005
-	Rising Domestic Terrorism	July 2005
-	The Outlook for HDTV Comes into Sharp Focus	July 2005
-	The Rise of the Mega-City	July 2005
-	Off-Shoring, Déjà Vu	July 2005
-	Increasing Global Economic Policy Coordination	July 2005
-	Technology Moves Us Towards the Real-Life Matrix	July 2005
-	To Tell the Truth	July 2005
-	New Weapons Are Poised to Win the Battle Against Cancer	August 2005
-	"Doctor on Call" Redefined	August 2005
-	The Military Recruitment Shortfall	August 2005
-	The Graying Planet Revisited	August 2005
-	Pension Plan Time Bomb	August 2005
-	The World Is Swimming in Cash	September 2005
-	China Is Going on a Buying Spree	September 2005
-	Global Cash Surplus Fuels U.S. Housing Bubble	September 2005
-	The Fifth Wave of the Information Revolution Has Begun	September 2005
-	The Coming Global War for Economic Supremacy	September 2005
-	The New Era of Public-Private Partnerships	September 2005
-	Oil Speculators Finally Face Their Day of Reckoning	October 2005
-	The Great American Healthcare Re-invention	October 2005
-	Domestic Robots Are Moving Forward	October 2005
-	The Great Global Consumption Boom Ahead	October 2005
-	Nutrition Deferred	October 2005
-	The American Border Security Challenge	October 2005
-	The Age of Watching Anything, Any Time, Anywhere Finally Dawns	November 2005
-	The Balance of Advertising Power Shifts	November 2005
-	Software as a Service	November 2005
-	The Surge in Text Messaging	November 2005
-	The Conceptual Age Has Arrived	November 2005
-	Business Coaching Evolves	November 2005
-	The Home Remodeling Boom	November 2005
-	Here Come the Singularitarians	December 2005
-	The Brave New World of "Brain Pills"	December 2005
-	The Biogenerics Market Outlook	December 2005
-	The Massively-Connected World	December 2005
-	Location-Based Technologies	December 2005
-	Web 2.0 Ushers in a Whole New Era	December 2005
-	China's Filtered Future	December 2005
-	I Spy	January 2004
-	Share the Wealth	January 2004
-	Open Innovation	January 2004
-	Co-Creation	January 2004
-	Tracking the Experts	January 2004
-	Faith at Work	January 2004
-	The God-Gulf	January 2004
-	Strategy in the Era of Business Eco-Systems	February 2004
-	Harnessing Co-opetition for Sustained Competitiveness	February 2004
-	Businesses Get a "Sense and Respond" Nervous System	February 2004
-	Companies Learn and Adapt to Their Competitive Environments	February 2004
-	Genetic Algorithms Attack Insoluble Business Problems	February 2004
-	Genetics Meets Innovation	February 2004
-	Companies Become Self-Organizing Systems	February 2004
-	Decision Making for Global Investors Becomes Clearer	March 2005
-	The New Technology Battle for the Home	March 2005
-	Intelligent Robots Will Soon Leave the Realm of Science Fiction	March 2005
-	Where the Jobs Will Be	April 2004
-	The Skills Gap Becomes a Chasm	April 2004
-	The 40-Hour Work Week Is Obsolete	April 2004
-	The Temp-Nation of America	April 2004
-	Outsourcing Will Become a Source of Strategic Advantage	April 2004
-	Off-Shoring the Back Office	April 2004
-	Where the Money Is	May 2004
-	Medicare Crisis Spurs Healthcare Revolution	May 2004
-	It's Time to Retire Retirement	May 2004
-	The Second Time Around	May 2004
-	They Retread Tires, Don't They?	May 2004
-	Elder-Care Becomes a Major Factor in the American Lifestyle	May 2004
-	The War That Wasn't	May 2004
-	What's Old Is New - And It's Hotter Than Ever	June 2004
-	Americans Are Finally Getting Quality Right	June 2004
-	The "Wireless Web" Finally Reaches Critical Mass	June 2004
-	The Adkins Diet Is Rocking Food-Related Industries	June 2004
-	The Buzzword of the Decade Is "Innovation"	June 2004
-	What Goes Down Must Come Up	June 2004
-	Mass Affluence	July 2004
-	Choice Overload	July 2004
-	The Search for Meaning	July 2004
-	The Greens Are Fading	July 2004
-	The Long and Short of Oil Prices	July 2004
-	A New Nuclear Renaissance	July 2004
-	The Job Shortage Turns into a Worker Shortage	August 2004
-	Japan Is Hot Again	August 2004
-	The Self-Driving Car and the Smart Highway	August 2004
-	Commuting Gets Off the Ground	August 2004
-	Nanotech Venture Capital Boom on the Horizon	August 2004
-	Quashing the Identity Theft Epidemic	August 2004
-	The Growing Mountain of Corporate Cash	September 2004
-	The Informal Economy Is Becoming Significant	September 2004
-	Gamers of the World Unite	September 2004
-	Water, Water Everywhere, but Fewer Drops to Drink	September 2004
-	Tapping into the Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid	September 2004
-	The Reverse Brain Drain	October 2004
-	The Patent Litigation Crisis	October 2004
-	The Hyper-Human Economy Is Coming	October 2004
-	Executive "Pay for Performance" Becomes More Than a Slogan	October 2004
-	Biometrics Brings a New Level of Security to Transactions	November 2004
-	Inflation Remains a Non-Issue	November 2004
-	The "Efficient Market Hypothesis" Gives Way to "Behavioral Finance"	December 2004
-	The Creativity Crisis	December 2004
-	U.S. Household Debt and Savings Rates: Much Ado About Nothing	December 2004
-	The Increasingly Binary Global Economy	December 2004
-	Moving South	December 2004
-	Hey What's That Sound?	January 2004
-	Communications Become Context-Specific	March 2004
-	The Post-PC Era is Emerging	March 2004
-	Home Automation and Communications System are Ready to "Take Control"	March 2004
-	This is Not Your Father's Television	March 2004
-	Video Gaming Becomes the Main Event	March 2004
-	Membership in Virtual Communities is Booming	March 2004
-	Off-Shoring the Knowledge Work	April 2004
-	Irrational Pessimism Is Finally Lifting	January 2006
-	A New Internet Boom Epitomized by Google Is Dawning	January 2006
-	The Media Transformation Continues	January 2006
-	Blogs Become Mainstream	January 2006
-	Resilience Is the Decade’s Main Business Strategy Theme	January 2006
-	Companies Rethink How They'll Manage and Recruit the Multi-Generational Workforce	January 2006
-	Boomers Continue to Be the Focus of Marketing Efforts	January 2006
-	The United States Has Entered a New Era in History	February 2006
-	The On-Line Generation	February 2006
-	Massively Multi-Player On-Line Role-Playing Games	February 2006
-	The Battle for Wireless Technology Dominance Gets Serious	February 2006
-	On-Line Advertising Turns the Corner	February 2006
-	Real vs. Cyber Becomes the Basis of Lifestyle Choices	February 2006
-	China Moves Beyond "Growth for Growth's Sake"	February 2006
-	The Patent Epidemic	March 2006
-	The "Population Explosion" Implodes	March 2006
-	Send Us Your Rich, Your Comfortable and Your Healthy, Yearning to Live Well	March 2006
-	The Young and Hip Are Discovering the Small-Town Advantage	March 2006
-	Corporate Social Responsibility: Big Bucks, Little Bang	March 2006
-	The Economics of the "Long Tail" Is Transforming Business Models	March 2006
-	The End of Retirement	May 2003
-	Eternal Youth	May 2003
-	Flatter Organizations Will Mean A Surplus Of Middle Managers	May 2003
-	The Graying Planet	May 2003
-	Keeping The Best	May 2003
-	Less Work, More Output	May 2003
-	Moore's Law And Beyond	May 2003
-	The New Boom In Information Technology	May 2003
-	Closing The Skills Gap	May 2003
-	Building The Fountain Of Youth	June 2003
-	Goodbye Mass Market	June 2003
-	Lifestyles Of The Rich And Frugal	June 2003
-	It's Best To Look Good And To Feel Good	June 2003
-	Media For Every Niche	June 2003
-	Salvation Through Immigration	June 2003
-	The Mass Upper Class	June 2003
-	Small Can Be Beautiful	July 2003
-	Profit Leaders Beat Market Leaders	July 2003
-	Fools Rush In	July 2003
-	Belt And Suspenders	July 2003
-	Big Brother Is Watching - More Closely	July 2003
-	Tort Reform Finally Has Its Day	July 2003
-	Generation Gaps In The Workplace	July 2003
-	Take Heart	July 2003
-	As Power Shifts To Customers, Businesses Will Fight Back With New Pricing Strategies	August 2003
-	Companies Finally Learn The Secrets Of Making Money With Mass Customization	August 2003
-	The Middleman Adapts In Order To Thrive	August 2003
-	On-Line Advertising Plunges Into The Mainstream	August 2003
-	Supply Chain Management Finally Delivers	August 2003
-	Integrating Bricks And Clicks Becomes Essential	August 2003
-	Broadband Is Everywhere	August 2003
-	Brace Yourself For The Wireless Technology Explosion	August 2003
-	Consumers Are Emerging From Their Cocoons	September 2003
-	Family Values And Priorities Are Going Back To The Future	September 2003
-	The Generation Gap Is Closing	September 2003
-	People Are Growing Older Without Growing Up	September 2003
-	Selfishness Is Out, "Giving Something Back" Is In	September 2003
-	Where There's A Will, There's A Way	September 2003
-	Our Houses Are Getting Smarter	September 2003
-	Globalization Is Continuing To Advance, Despite Terrorism And Recession	October 2003
-	Globalization is Strengthening America's Economic Dominance	October 2003
-	India & China Will Continue To Be At The Center Stage In The Globalization Drama	October 2003
-	Global Capitalism Will Remain The Only Mechanism Capable Of Bettering The Quality Of Life For The World's Poor	October 2003
-	Eco-Anarchists Are Fighting A Losing Battle Against Globalization	October 2003
-	Radical Islam Remains The Biggest Threat To Globalization	October 2003
-	The Tower Of Babel In Reverse	October 2003
-	The U.S. Economy Keeps on Booming	April 2006
-	Naked At The Office: The Age Of "Business Transparency" Is Upon Us	December 2003
-	The Boss Is Watching You	December 2003
-	Getting Inside Customers' Minds With "Neuromarketing"	December 2003
-	Feed A Fever, Starve A Cancer	December 2003
-	"MEMS" The Word	December 2003
-	Industrial Robot Sales Boom	December 2003
-	Voice Over IP Finally Takes Off	December 2003
-	64-Bit Microprocessors Will Dramatically Change Computing Performance	December 2003
-	Subliminal Marketing is Going Mainstream	April 2006
-	Take This Job And Shove It	December 2003
-	The Time for National Missile Defense Is Coming	April 2006
-	Voice Recognition Is Finally Starting to Make Sense	April 2006
-	New Tools Help Companies Manage Unstructured Data	April 2006
-	Meaning and Values Are Becoming the Keys to Successful Human Resource Management	April 2006
-	Convergence Scrambles the Media Status Quo	April 2006
-	The Money, Freedom, and Glamour of Private Equity	May 2006
-	Conspicuous Consumption Returns	May 2006
-	Philanthropy Makes A Big Comeback	May 2006
-	Farm-Shoring Brings High-Tech Jobs to Rural Areas	May 2006
-	Software Wars Challenge Industry Players	May 2006
-	The Era of Absolutely Fabulous Manufacturing Is Coming	May 2006
-	"Helicopter Parents" Land in the Workplace	May 2006
-	The Emerging Tri-Polar World Economy	June 2006
-	The End of the "End of Oil"	June 2006
-	America's Moral Renaissance Continues	June 2006
-	The Scientific Computing Revolution	June 2006
-	Digital Books Start a New Chapter	June 2006
-	Personal Jets Disrupt Aviation	June 2006
-	Science Explores the Roots of Joy and Happiness	June 2006
-	Oil Prices Are Poised on a Political "Knife's Edge"	July 2006
-	A New Tech Boom Gathers Steam	July 2006
-	The Anticipated Housing Plateau Is Here	July 2006
-	Inflation Is Still Not the Problem	July 2006
-	China's Troubled Transition	July 2006
-	Understanding the Slide in Economic and Personal Freedom	July 2006
-	Methane Hydrate, Our Long-Term Energy Solution	August 2006
-	The Rise of Crowdsourcing	August 2006
-	Kill All the Trial Lawyers	August 2006
-	Biotech and the New Era of Germ Warfare	August 2006