How To Predict The Non-Obvious Future

I have spent a lot of time over the past few months thinking about the future.

I passed the two year mark of starting my own business. I just turned forty years old. Those alone are plenty of cause to get you thinking about things on a different time scale. When you add to that my annual tradition of looking backward over the past year in order to produce my “Non-Obvious Trend Report” … you can see how I end up spending a lot of time focused on the future.

The annual result of this obsession ha...