The next boom
Subtitle: what you absolutely, positively have to know about the world between now and 2025
By: Jack W. Plunkett
Publisher: BizExecs Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houston, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781608799992
Subjects: Forecasting; Technological innovations; Business planning; Business forecasting
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Change. Education, generations and change; title: Epilogue. 2026.