David Pearce Snyder
David Pearce Snyder is a long-range forecaster with an impressive 30-year track record and a million-item database of trends and projections. Snyder uses this database in his presentations to create detailed scenarios of the most probable economic, technological, and social realities in the future operating environments of specific industries, institutions, and professions during the next 10 years.
David enlivens his forecasts with insights and anecdotes gathered from over 20 years as lifestyles editor of "The Futurist" magazine. Snyder uses his "instant pre-plays" of the most probable future to distinguish short-term fads from long-term trends, and to separate conventional thinking from strategic thinking. He is editor/co-author of 5 books, and has appeared on Nightline, the Today Show, CNN, and MSNBC.
MOST REQUESTED TOPICS:
GrrRANK! The World's Largest Economy Shifts Gears
2009 to 2014 - Because the 2008 financial crash will ultimately eliminate between $10 and $20 trillion from the world's capital supply, both commercial and consumer credit will be costlier - and harder to get - from now on. Even after we recover from the current recession (2011), levels of consumer spending will remain restrained. To offset the effects of the Recession, the new leadership in Washington will enact a universal health insurance system, while directing hundreds of $ billions of Federal investment to public services and infrastructure improvements - especially urban water systems, school construction, highways and mass transit, renewable energy research and production, and green house gas reduction.
Within 5 years, America will be spending less on housing, cares and designer clothing, and spending moreon infrastructure, healthcare and home entertainment. Spreading suburban sprawl will have come to a halt, and most new residences will be in high-density, mixed-use in-fill developments, clustered around rail transit stations throughout an increasingly car-free, urbanized America. The coming building boom in energy-efficient urban villageswill make the nation's return to sustainable middle class living.
Consulting futurist David Pearce Snyder describes how a confluence of long-term trends and short-term imperatives are already transforming the way Americans will live in the 21st Century.
What to Do 'til the Recovery Comes
Exploring the Marketplace for Retail Banking
2009 to 2014 - To re-phrase Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the current generation of Americans has a 'rendezvous with austerity,' as tighter credit, combined with stagnant income growth, forces growing numbers of US household to 'live with their means.'
Meanwhile, post 2008 banking regulations can be expected to curtail future high-risk investing and to reduce the financial services sector's ability to create new sources of capital. both the interest charged for credit AND the interest earned by bank deposits will rise as a result, reversing the long-term decline in US savings rate, as wary Americans turn away from speculative investing to banks as secure repositories for their discretionary income.
Against this backdrop of dramatic socio-economic change, futurist David Pearce Snyder will spell out four strategies for consumer banking - based on long term demographic and tenologic realities - that will offer financial service providers predictable marketplace opportunities for growth and profitability in the uncertain years ahead.
Cybertunity's Knocking
Strategies for Credit Unions in Revolutionary Times
At a time when most of us are understandably preoccupied with recession and the ongoing fall-out from the sub-prime credit bubble. It is particularly important not to lose sight of the long-term demographic, econometric and technologic trends that will predictably determine the major new markets for consumer financial services over the next 10 years.
In this lively, illustrated presentation, futurist David Pearce Snyder details the forecastable realities that will offer growing marketplace opportunities for consumer financial services, spelling out the specific applications of info-com technology that will both transform and expand the services that America's credit unions provide their members.
Ready or Not!
Information Technology and Demographic Necessity is About to Transform American Healthcare!
Healthcare is America's biggest industry, (1/6 of US GDP) and our largest employer (1/7 of US workforce). Because of our aging population, economic-demographers project that health services will employ 1-in-5 workers by 2020, and account for 1/4 of our GDP by 2025. But demographers also warn that there will be a predictable shortage of 1 million nurses and 250,000 doctors in less than 10 years.
Futurist David Pearce Snyder describes how a combination of demographic and economic necessities will force the accelerated adoption of information technology throughout America's largest industry, increasing the quality of US healthcare and reducing its costs, while using on-line telemedicine systems to deliver superior in-home care for most chronically ill and convalescent patients by 2020.
Coming Soon, To a Future Near You
The Transformation of Urban America
As we travel through life - out of the past, through the present and into the future - the pace of tangible change typically occurs so slowly that there seems to be little evidence to distinguish the future from teh recent past. But futurist David Pearce Snyder believes that the gradual pace of tangible change in daily life is about to quicken, especially in urban America.
In this illustrated Instant Pre-Playof the coming decade, David describes how a historic alignment of long-term demographic trends with the singular economic and political developments of 2008 will dramatically accelerate the 'greening' of urban America; by ending suburban sprawl and promoting high-density infill development in conjunction with an explosive expansion of mass transit and the rapid adoption of 'car-free' life styles.
Welcome to the Future!
Preparing Young Americans for Life and Work in Revolutionary Times - A Strategic Briefing for Educators
For more than a decade, corporate leaders, politicians and many educators have assumed that, in our 21st Century, information-based economy, essentially everyone will require an increasingly costly college degree in order to earn middle-class wages.
However, Labor Department forecasts show that - for the foreseeable future - more than half of all US jobs will continue to require no more than a high school education. At the same time, 'job content analysis' indicates that, from now on, ALL work will require a new set of basic skills, including: systems thinkings - logical problem solving - collegial work habits - Internet mastery and continuous learning. Meanwhile, the impending retirement of the Baby Boomers is projected to leave the nation's schools with a shortage of 1 million teachers.
Futurist David Pearce Snyder describes how, as a result of these converging realities, both K-12 schools and post-secondary institutions will quickly adopt Internet-based technology - groupware, computer simulations, serious on-line games, blogs and Wikis - to provide young Americans with both the old and new skills that they will need to meet the challenges of the future.
Now Entering the Future
Be Prepared to Change - An Instant Pre-Play of the Coming Decade for National Defense
Everybody talks about the future, but we never seem to get there. Until now! Today, the pace of innovations is quickening, and R&D cycles are compressing. New realities are forcing us to rethink our most basic assumptions. Even as we reshape our current forces to deal with new missions - urban street fighting, brushfire wars, peace keeping - using new weapons - UAVs, smart ordnance, GPS- futurists report that emerging technologies will soon confront us with NEW threats - blast wave accelerators, pharmacologic land mines, MEMS, etc. - in NEW theatres - cyberspace, nanospace, and outer space. Meanwhile, long-term economic and demographic trends make it clear that America will face an increasingly turbulent strategic environment abroad while coping with a growing shortage of entry-level recruits at home.
In this Instant Pre-Playof the decade ahead, forecaster David Pearce Snyder will spell out the challenges that will confront the 'last superpower standing' in a future that will be dramatically different from the present.
David Pearce Snyder is a long-range forecaster with an impressive 30-year track record and a million-item database of trends and projections. Snyder uses this database in his presentations to create detailed scenarios of the most probable economic, technological, and social realities in the future operating environments of specific industries, institutions, and professions during the next 10 years.
David enlivens his forecasts with insights and anecdotes gathered from over 20 years as lifestyles editor of "The Futurist" magazine. Snyder uses his "instant pre-plays" of the most probable future to distinguish short-term fads from long-term trends, and to separate conventional thinking from strategic thinking. He is editor/co-author of 5 books, and has appeared on Nightline, the Today Show, CNN, and MSNBC.
MOST REQUESTED TOPICS:
GrrRANK! The World's Largest Economy Shifts Gears
2009 to 2014 - Because the 2008 financial crash will ultimately eliminate between $10 and $20 trillion from the world's capital supply, both commercial and consumer credit will be costlier - and harder to get - from now on. Even after we recover from the current recession (2011), levels of consumer spending will remain restrained. To offset the effects of the Recession, the new leadership in Washington will enact a universal health insurance system, while directing hundreds of $ billions of Federal investment to public services and infrastructure improvements - especially urban water systems, school construction, highways and mass transit, renewable energy research and production, and green house gas reduction.
Within 5 years, America will be spending less on housing, cares and designer clothing, and spending moreon infrastructure, healthcare and home entertainment. Spreading suburban sprawl will have come to a halt, and most new residences will be in high-density, mixed-use in-fill developments, clustered around rail transit stations throughout an increasingly car-free, urbanized America. The coming building boom in energy-efficient urban villageswill make the nation's return to sustainable middle class living.
Consulting futurist David Pearce Snyder describes how a confluence of long-term trends and short-term imperatives are already transforming the way Americans will live in the 21st Century.
What to Do 'til the Recovery Comes
Exploring the Marketplace for Retail Banking
2009 to 2014 - To re-phrase Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the current generation of Americans has a 'rendezvous with austerity,' as tighter credit, combined with stagnant income growth, forces growing numbers of US household to 'live with their means.'
Meanwhile, post 2008 banking regulations can be expected to curtail future high-risk investing and to reduce the financial services sector's ability to create new sources of capital. both the interest charged for credit AND the interest earned by bank deposits will rise as a result, reversing the long-term decline in US savings rate, as wary Americans turn away from speculative investing to banks as secure repositories for their discretionary income.
Against this backdrop of dramatic socio-economic change, futurist David Pearce Snyder will spell out four strategies for consumer banking - based on long term demographic and tenologic realities - that will offer financial service providers predictable marketplace opportunities for growth and profitability in the uncertain years ahead.
Cybertunity's Knocking
Strategies for Credit Unions in Revolutionary Times
At a time when most of us are understandably preoccupied with recession and the ongoing fall-out from the sub-prime credit bubble. It is particularly important not to lose sight of the long-term demographic, econometric and technologic trends that will predictably determine the major new markets for consumer financial services over the next 10 years.
In this lively, illustrated presentation, futurist David Pearce Snyder details the forecastable realities that will offer growing marketplace opportunities for consumer financial services, spelling out the specific applications of info-com technology that will both transform and expand the services that America's credit unions provide their members.
Ready or Not!
Information Technology and Demographic Necessity is About to Transform American Healthcare!
Healthcare is America's biggest industry, (1/6 of US GDP) and our largest employer (1/7 of US workforce). Because of our aging population, economic-demographers project that health services will employ 1-in-5 workers by 2020, and account for 1/4 of our GDP by 2025. But demographers also warn that there will be a predictable shortage of 1 million nurses and 250,000 doctors in less than 10 years.
Futurist David Pearce Snyder describes how a combination of demographic and economic necessities will force the accelerated adoption of information technology throughout America's largest industry, increasing the quality of US healthcare and reducing its costs, while using on-line telemedicine systems to deliver superior in-home care for most chronically ill and convalescent patients by 2020.
Coming Soon, To a Future Near You
The Transformation of Urban America
As we travel through life - out of the past, through the present and into the future - the pace of tangible change typically occurs so slowly that there seems to be little evidence to distinguish the future from teh recent past. But futurist David Pearce Snyder believes that the gradual pace of tangible change in daily life is about to quicken, especially in urban America.
In this illustrated Instant Pre-Playof the coming decade, David describes how a historic alignment of long-term demographic trends with the singular economic and political developments of 2008 will dramatically accelerate the 'greening' of urban America; by ending suburban sprawl and promoting high-density infill development in conjunction with an explosive expansion of mass transit and the rapid adoption of 'car-free' life styles.
Welcome to the Future!
Preparing Young Americans for Life and Work in Revolutionary Times - A Strategic Briefing for Educators
For more than a decade, corporate leaders, politicians and many educators have assumed that, in our 21st Century, information-based economy, essentially everyone will require an increasingly costly college degree in order to earn middle-class wages.
However, Labor Department forecasts show that - for the foreseeable future - more than half of all US jobs will continue to require no more than a high school education. At the same time, 'job content analysis' indicates that, from now on, ALL work will require a new set of basic skills, including: systems thinkings - logical problem solving - collegial work habits - Internet mastery and continuous learning. Meanwhile, the impending retirement of the Baby Boomers is projected to leave the nation's schools with a shortage of 1 million teachers.
Futurist David Pearce Snyder describes how, as a result of these converging realities, both K-12 schools and post-secondary institutions will quickly adopt Internet-based technology - groupware, computer simulations, serious on-line games, blogs and Wikis - to provide young Americans with both the old and new skills that they will need to meet the challenges of the future.
Now Entering the Future
Be Prepared to Change - An Instant Pre-Play of the Coming Decade for National Defense
Everybody talks about the future, but we never seem to get there. Until now! Today, the pace of innovations is quickening, and R&D cycles are compressing. New realities are forcing us to rethink our most basic assumptions. Even as we reshape our current forces to deal with new missions - urban street fighting, brushfire wars, peace keeping - using new weapons - UAVs, smart ordnance, GPS- futurists report that emerging technologies will soon confront us with NEW threats - blast wave accelerators, pharmacologic land mines, MEMS, etc. - in NEW theatres - cyberspace, nanospace, and outer space. Meanwhile, long-term economic and demographic trends make it clear that America will face an increasingly turbulent strategic environment abroad while coping with a growing shortage of entry-level recruits at home.
In this Instant Pre-Playof the decade ahead, forecaster David Pearce Snyder will spell out the challenges that will confront the 'last superpower standing' in a future that will be dramatically different from the present.
