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| Just a few short years ago, before the dot-com crash, any Web site with lots of visitors was thought to be a money machine for advertisers. BlueMountain.com, a greeting card company with 11 million visitors a month, sold for $780 million, even though it had no revenues. But, shortly after the crash, you couldn’t give those eyeballs away, and until recently the industry consensus was that there was little if any value in advertising on the Internet. |
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| To understand how momentous this trend is, we need to take a step back to get a better perspective. The primary mission of Trends is to prepare our subscribers to anticipate the threats and opportunities they’ll face in the future. Most of these threats and opportunities occur at the intersection of three broad forces: demographics, technology, and values. |
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Conspicuous Consumpt |
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| As of 2004, there were nearly 9 million U.S. households with investable assets of $1 million or more, not counting their homes and tax-advantaged retirement accounts. |
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"Helicopter Parents" |
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| It might not surprise you to hear that the average parent spends $2,200 per child each year on food, housing, education, and spending money. But, it might startle you to learn that the “children” being supported are aged 18 to 34. |
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생태제국주의 독재 끝내기 |
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| 지난 90년대 이후, 기후변화와 환경에 대한 선진국들의 이해는 저개발 국가의 희생을 강요해왔다. 그로 인해 여전히 개발이 필요한 전 세계 인구의 절반이 절대적 빈곤에 시달리고 있다. 풍부하고 저렴한 에너지가 그들에게 있음에도 불구하고 이를 적극적으로 활용할 수 없는 이유는 무엇일까? 향후 이들의 선택은 무엇이 될까? |
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