Coming home from the annual meet-up of the New Urbanists, I was already agitated from the shenanigans of United Airlines -- two-hour delay, blown connection -- when I waded into this week's New York Times Sunday Magazine for further evidence that our ruling elites are too stupid to survive (and ...read more

The rate of technological change is accelerating. Yes, I know. It’s been said before, but it bears repeating. The reason is that we tend to assume that progress will continue as an upward sloping straight line. It won't, in fact, it will be much more rapid - even exponential at times. Think ...read more

I have remarkable news for you. It ranks, in fact, among the great humanitarian breakthroughs of our age. BioTime, Inc. (BTIM: OTCBB) CEO Dr. Michael West was the final speaker at the World Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress 2009. On May 14, he presented preliminary scientific data about his ability ...read more

Florida's perfect subtropical winter is beginning to fade, unfortunately. On the way are days like ovens and hurricanes from the coast of Africa. Ah, well. I've just returned home from Baltimore, where I met with some of Agora Financial's leading lights. I felt especially privileged to do so because many other ...read more

As I predicted, the president lifted the funding ban on embryonic stem cells.  First, though, please indulge a rant... "It's not the lie. It's the coverup" is the old political adage. Usually, in politics, it's much better to admit a mistake and move on. I wish to heaven we could learn that ...read more

Everybody wants predictions. The following article does a little better than that, in that I wrote it back in November of 1997, outlining several theories of history, and pointing to a logical way of anticipating what will likely happen to the world at large over the next generation. As you will ...read more

OK, so I don’t have a copy of the Sunday business section from next March. But I think I know what at least one major issue will be within the next 24 months. The headlines will scream, “Power Failures, Price Spikes Plague Northeast U.S.” And the same thing will also hit ...read more