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Bill's Blog and Newsletter
| Image | Title | Summary | Categories | Author | Date |
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 | Peak Carbon: Evidence and Prospects | This posting on Peak Carbon can be seen here at TechCast Research and Bill’s Blog. … | Blog | TechCast Team | June 23, 2025 |
 | An Online Model of Business as a Socio-Economic System | Proposed Project to Build An Online Model of Business as a Socio-Economic System The FFP … | Blog | Bill Halal | May 16, 2024 |
 | America’s Crisis of Maturity | America’s Crisis of Maturity: Democracy or Autocracy ? The coming US Presidential election should provide a … | Blog | Bill Halal | February 1, 2024 |
 | Promises and Perils of AI: Yes, a Powerful Tool … But a Singularity? | TechCast is proud to present results from our study on Promises and Perils of AI. This study was … | Blog, Emerging Technologies, Professional | Bill Halal | June 15, 2023 |
 | Peak Trump: A Forecast of Accountability | To honor July 4th, the American holiday of independence, this study took up what seems the biggest … | Blog, Professional | TechCast Team | July 20, 2022 |
 | Four Scenarios to Resolve the Global MegaCrisis | Four Strategies to Resolve the Global MegaCrisis Overview We start by acknowledging that the … | Blog, Professional | TechCast Team | June 4, 2022 |
 | Portal to Global Consciousness | Vision The Portal to Global Consciousness is a network of those interested in developing a … | Blog, Professional | TechCast Team | March 3, 2022 |
 | Is an Age of Consciousness Here? Really? | This study focuses on the growing ascendance of consciousness in life today. Our working hypothesis is … | Blog, Professional | TechCast Team | November 21, 2021 |
 | The Cognitive Roots of Conflict | TechCast’s study of mis/disinformation leads us to this broader focus on studying the Cognitive Roots of Conflict. … | Blog, Emerging Technologies, Professional | TechCast Team | September 13, 2021 |
 | Beyond Knowledge | Prof. Halal’s latest book — Beyond Knowledge — has become a #1 best seller on … | Blog, Popular, Uncategorized | TechCast Team | June 10, 2021 |
 | Life Extension | Summary Life extension is defined as prolonging human life beyond the normal limits of roughly … | Blog, Emerging Technologies, Uncategorized | TechCast Team | June 3, 2021 |
 | TechCast/Cognis Strategic Forum | The First Strategic Forum – Planning for Transformative Change The pandemic and other threats like … | Blog, Popular | TechCast Team | November 27, 2020 |
| AI versus Humans – The Salient Issue of Our Time | AI versus Humans – The Salient Issue of Our Time Having solved the problems of … | Blog | TechCast Team | October 12, 2020 |
 | Forecasting the 2020 US Election – Trump or Biden? | Forecasting the 2020 US Presidential Election – RESULTS TechCast has done many provocative studies, but … | Blog | Bill Halal | October 7, 2020 |
| Forecasting the 2020 US Election – Trump or Biden? | Forecasting the 2020 US Presidential Election TechCast now moves to the next most popular topic … | Blog | TechCast Team | September 12, 2020 |
| Redesigning Capitalism | Redesigning Capitalism – Final Results The Coming Collaborative/Democratic Enterprise Do not despair over the dismal … | Blog | TechCast Team | August 29, 2020 | |
| Redesigning Capitalism | Redesigning Capitalism – Round Two Comments From Readers On Collaborative/Democratic Enterprise Following up on our last blog … | Blog | TechCast Team | August 16, 2020 | |
| Redesigning Capitalism | I am grateful to the many people who responded to our request for rating topics: Art … | Blog | TechCast Team | August 2, 2020 | |
| Choosing the Top Strategic Studies | What Are the Most Crucial Strategic Issues To Study? A Survey of Readers’ Interests Bill’s Blog has … | Blog | TechCast Team | July 19, 2020 | |
 | Forecasting the Trump Presidency | This is a slightly updated version of our 2016 study forecasting the Trump Era. The … | Blog, Popular | TechCast Team | July 9, 2020 |
 | Survey Results on the Coming Internet: Yes to Security, Decentralization and Immersion | It is our great pleasure to present final results of this study exploring where the … | Blog | TechCast Team | July 7, 2020 |
| The Coming Secure, Bottom Up, Immersive Internet | Bill’s Blog – June 14, 2020 Our previous blog of May 30 summarized background information … | Blog | TechCast Team | June 14, 2020 |
| The Bottom Up, Secure and Immersive Internet | The Bottom Up, Secure and Immersive Internet This week’s blog explores the coming next generation … | Blog | TechCast Team | June 6, 2020 |
 | Bill’s Blog – May 09, 2020 | Wrapping Up Our Study of the Global MegaCrisis I am grateful for the many … | Blog | TechCast Team | June 5, 2020 |
| Bill’s Blog – April 25, 2020 | Our blog of March 28 issued a call for comments on solving the Global MegaCrisis. The blog … | Blog | TechCast Team | April 26, 2020 |
| Collective Intelligence to Solve the MegaCrisis | … | Blog, Popular | Bill Halal | April 20, 2020 |
| Bill’s Blog April 11, 2020 | Collective Intelligence on Solving the MegaCrisis Last week’s blog issued a call for … | Blog | TechCast Team | April 13, 2020 |
 | BEYOND KNOWLEDGE: How Technology is Driving an Age of Consciousness | I am pleased to provide this summary of my forthcoming book, Beyond Knowledge. This is … | Blog, Popular | Bill Halal | April 1, 2020 |
 | Bill’s Blog March 28, 2020 | Strategic Foresight in Action This blog strives to be experimental in order to find formats … | Blog | TechCast Team | March 30, 2020 |
 | Bill’s Blog March 14, 2020 | Big History, Holograms, and Superbugs Responses to our first two newsletters was gratifying, and we … | Blog | TechCast Team | March 15, 2020 |
 | Bill’s Blog Feb 29, 2020 | Special Issue onThe Mounting Climate Crisis With parts of Australia now uninhabitable due to raging … | Blog | TechCast Team | March 3, 2020 |
 | Bill’s Blog Feb 15, 2020 | Introductory Issue Introducing the 2nd Gen TechCast Updating Strategy for a High-Tech Future:Change … | Blog | TechCast Team | February 21, 2020 |
 | Another Trip to the Future | My wife and I recently took a vacation in New Orleans for Mardi-Gras, and it … | Blog | Bill Halal | March 8, 2016 |
 | My Trip to the Future: Technology, Diversity, and Community | I spent a week in Brooklyn recently for my daughter’s wedding, and I came back … | Blog | Bill Halal | November 26, 2015 |
 | The Struggle between Left and Right in Italy | Portofino My wife and took a glorious week in Rome, Tuscany and Umbria recently, savoring … | Blog | Bill Halal | November 2, 2015 |
| What If Lincoln Had Let the South Go? A Counterfactual Thought Experiment | Although Americans are justly proud of the heroic way President Lincoln kept the South in … | Blog | Bill Halal | October 14, 2015 | |
| What the Pope Should Tell Congress: Americans Should Strive to Realize Their Ideals | As a scholar, forecaster, strategist, businessman, American Catholic, and all-around know-it-all, I wondered what … | Blog | Bill Halal | September 23, 2015 | |
| Why the GOP Loves Trump and the Odds of His Election | The amazing rise of Donald Trump to lead the Republican race for president is a … | Blog | Bill Halal | August 30, 2015 | |
| A Poke in the Eye and the SONY Hack: How Will Americans Handle the Clash between Freedom and Violence? | The North Korean attack on SONY raised the issue of America’s vaunted “freedom of expression” … | Blog | Bill Halal | December 20, 2014 | |
| Forecasting Threats Like Ebola | Eleven months into the world’s worst Ebola outbreak, there have been more than 9,200 suspected … | Blog | Bill Halal | November 3, 2014 | |
| Testing Forecast Repeatability: Before and After Data on the Move from TechCast.org to TechCastGlobal.com | TechCast’s recent move from its 6th generation website (www.TechCast.org) to its new 7th gen … | Blog | Bill Halal | October 20, 2014 | |
| A Carbon Bubbble in 2015? | The dot.com bubble caused a market crash in 2000, a housing bubble almost brought down … | Blog | Bill Halal | July 24, 2014 | |
| Is Soft Power a Breakthrough? | My TechCast Project (www.TechCastGlobal.com) has published breakthroughs for years, usually for emerging technologies. This is our … | Blog | Bill Halal | July 7, 2014 | |
| Moment of Truth: Will “Immiseration” of the Working Class Spur Change? | Cautionary Note: Although I have published in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and … | Blog | Bill Halal | January 15, 2014 | |
| Stop Arguing: Today’s Knotty Problems Demand Collaboration | The strident controversy over President Obama’s threat to strike Syria and Congress’s most recent stalemate … | Blog | Bill Halal | October 1, 2013 | |
| We Got It Right: America Could Start Working Again | My blogs over the past few years have agonized over the American Decline, but I … | Blog | Bill Halal | November 21, 2012 | |
| Prospects for American Renewal: Will the 2012 Elections Turn the Tide? | The decline of the US is pretty well-accepted now by all but the most fervent … | Blog | Bill Halal | September 13, 2012 | |
| At the Eye of the Storm: Advice From the Future | The “Crisis of Capitalism” has entered a more quiescent phase, leaving massive threats looming … | Blog | Bill Halal | March 11, 2012 | |
| If Great Corporations Could Lead: How to Unite Right and Left and Save the World | What if our great corporations could direct their enormous capabilities to solving the global mess … | Blog | Bill Halal | February 10, 2012 | |
| Could Americans Outgrow Capitalism? | Yes, I know it sounds loony, hyper-liberal, Marxist, and unrealistic to think that true-blue … | Blog | Bill Halal | October 7, 2011 | |
| Wildfires, Brush, and Biofuel | With all the depressing news of raging wildfires and killer tornadoes in the Southwest USA, … | Blog | Bill Halal | July 13, 2011 | |
| What’s Next? Will Emerging Technologies Help? | This is a confusing time, with the US in gridlock, the Great Recession rolling on, … | Blog | Bill Halal | June 21, 2011 | |
| What are the Keys to Apple’s Success in Emerging Technologies? | Apple did not come by its present success easily. Before the iPod, iPhone, and iPad … | Blog | Bill Halal | May 2, 2011 | |
| How NetFlix Beat Blockbuster: An Exemplar of Emerging Technologies | CEO Reed Hastings Announces Streaming Movies Just a decade ago, Blockbuster ruled the movie rental … | Blog | Bill Halal | April 26, 2011 | |
| More Emerging Technologies | Following up my last blog, here are more interesting emerging technologies that are likely to … | Blog | Bill Halal | April 16, 2011 | |
| Striking Emerging Technologies | With the Technology Revolution heating up very quickly, I thought a quick summary of some … | Blog | Bill Halal | April 13, 2011 | |
| Limits of Markets | Unguided markets focused on short-term profit were largely responsible for the financial meltdown of 2008 … | Blog | Bill Halal | October 11, 2010 | |
| Business is Stuck | I was speaking with a friend who’s an executive in large US corporation, and our … | Blog | Bill Halal | July 14, 2010 | |
| Singapore II | I was invited back to Singapore to keynote the International Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning … | Blog | Bill Halal | May 3, 2010 | |
| Stalemate: Political Gridlock in the U.S. | The 2010 Massachusetts election for U.S. Senate marks the resurgence of Republican power to counter … | Blog | Bill Halal | January 19, 2010 | |
| Report from Singapore | I’d like to give you a report on my trip to Singapore and what it … | Blog | Bill Halal | December 15, 2009 | |
| Bill On Kojo Nnamdi Show | Bill was interviewed on WAMU’s The Kojo Nnamdi Show. They discussed TechCast’s forecasts on the … | Blog | Bill Halal | December 10, 2009 | |
| Going Nowhere | As President Obama and a few allies like Senator Kennedy struggle to pull together a … | Blog | Bill Halal | December 10, 2009 | |
| America Should Learn to Cooperate | Americans seems stuck in a high-conflict mode, as best seen in the heated clashes between … | Blog | Bill Halal | December 10, 2009 | |
| Through the Crisis of Maturity: Forecast of a New Economic Boom | The constant drumbeat of cascading business failures is certainly daunting, but technology forecasts suggest that … | Blog | Bill Halal | December 10, 2009 | |
| Parable of the Light Switch | I was puzzling about a light switch with a broken “arm” that holds the control … | Blog | Bill Halal | December 10, 2009 |