Toffler and the Revolution

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Gregory Mantell's interview of Alvin Toffler relating to he and his wife's latest book Revolutionary Wealth addresses a series of notions including the intangible nature of knowledge and its reprecussions to wealth and his prediction of a series of "Institutional Katrinas", where businesses, governments and educational systems will catastrohpically fail in delivering on promises. Watch the interview.

Serve Up Food Inc.

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Michael Pollan, award winning author of a number of books including best seller The Omnivore's Dilemma is featured in the just released movie Food Inc.. No sphere of our world is protected from the impact of the revolution, least of which is the food industry as this documentary shows. You'll never look at food the same again. The need to decentralize our production and consumption of food has never been more evident.

A New Economics - The Collapse of Retail

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Recent times are revealing inefficient economic models everywhere. This is not reflective of a temporary drop in demand but a more fundamental shift touching every consumer and industry. For example, during the past decade, which saw tremendous economic activity, the retail distribution of entertainment content was overcome by new models, and the culling is not yet over with. Now comes further reorganization in the retail sector. All major retail chains are unsustainable and demonstrating their ineffiencies - most will not survive with hundreds of thousands set to close this year alone. In the U.S. nearly 19 square feet of retail exists for every man women and child: the number should be half of that. New economic models are sweeping over each and every industry. Hear more from Howard Davidowitz on the state of U.S. retail today.