Where is the Puck?

In his recent blog post, Seth Godin argues that “the networked revolution is creating huge profits, significant opportunities and a lot of change”. The cyclical recession is gradually ending according to Godin. The new type of permanent recession is emerging due to disappearing middle class jobs: those jobs that existed because companies had no choice [...]

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Here is a link to the great four minute video on the Social Media Revolution. Is the social media trend the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Consider these numbers: – iPower Application Downloads hit 1 billion in 9 months – Facebook added 100,000,000 user last 9 months – If Facebook were a country, it [...]

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It looks like our blog’s contributor Allen Zhu was right about recession in his article “The End of Recession in Canada? Think again.” In today’s Vancouver Sun, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty cautioned that it’s too early to pronounce the recession over, as the number of Canadians collecting jobless benefits surged to the highest level since [...]

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Is the recession in Canada over? Yes, according to Vancouver Sun. Think again, says Allen Zhu, Capilano University professor, whose article has been submitted to “Where is the Puck?”. Allen suggests that maybe the worst it over, but it will take much more time… Written by Allen Zhu: An article titled “The worst of the [...]

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Third updated edition of “Shift Happens” video uncovers more new trends and stats (the 1st edition was published here earlier). Here are some highlights: – The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004 – The number #1 country in Internet broadband penetration is Bermuda (US – #19, Japan #22) – There [...]

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In a global outlook released Wednesday, the IMF made a number predictions: – Global growth in 2009 is estimated to a slight 0.5 per cent, the weakest since the Second World War – Global growth is projected to rebound in 2010 to 3.0 percent – Canada’s economy would contract by 1.2 per cent this year; [...]

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Our society has drastically changed over time. First we used to have the Agricultural age, followed by the Industrial age. Today,we live in the Information age. What is next? In first two societies the strong emphasis was placed on material resources, such as food and land (Agricultural age), and later machines, oil and raw materials [...]

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According to Mark Mobius, investment guru and Executive Chairman of Templeton Asset Management, balance of economic power is shifting away from USA… “China, Russia, India, Taiwan are having huge surpluses and are able to invest not only in each other, but also in the US and Europe… The effect of this trend will be very [...]

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In a recent Fortune magazine, Geoff Colvin suggests that we may be approaching the end of the next bubble: standard-of-living bubble. Stock prices are back where they were 8 years ago, and home prices are where they were 5 years ago. Personal savings are decreasing, while financial markets are going through extremely challenging times, with [...]

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According to Google’s co-founder, Larry Page, “breakthrough ideas are around the corner, but most of us are failing to take a chance on them”… What was he thinking about? Solar thermal (harnessing solar energy for heat), geothermal (energy generated by heat stored beneath the Earth’s surface) and automated cars, for example, said Page in the [...]

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