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About David Houle
David Houle is a futurist, strategist and speaker. He has always been slightly ahead the curve. Houle spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment. He has worked at NBC, CBS and was part of the senior executive team that created and launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and CNN Headline News. He helped to create television series on A&E for ... more
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Memes to Movements - David Houle
By David Houle
The three forces of the Shift Age are the Flow to Global, the Flow to the Individual and the Accelerated Electronic Connectedness of the planet. There are 7 billion humans alive today and 5.3 billion of them have cell phones. 3 billion people connect to the Internet every day. These are the forces and the numbers that are shaping most of the... more
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Welcome to 2012! - David Houle
By David Houle
Well, here we are in 2012. There is much about change and expectation in the air. This is the year of the quadrennial presidential election in America, the ongoing drama about the future of the Euro and the next stage of the Occupy movement. We continue to suffer the on-going debt overhang and hangover from drinking too deeply from... more
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Occupy: The Media - David Houle
By David Houle
The Occupy Wall Street movement must be looked at from both a historical and future perspective. If you have just received your information through the main stream media of this movement you do not have a clear picture of its significance.
Occupy is a historically unprecedented movement. In one month it went from several dozen people in... more
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How Fast? - David Houle
By David Houle
It was one hundred and six years ago that Albert Einstein stated that the speed limit of the cosmos was the speed of light – 186,000 miles per second. The speed of light, the "c" in the equation E=mc2, has, since Einstein's Theory of Relativity, been accepted as a fundamental axiom of science. It is one of the foundations of... more
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Well, Hello Drachma! - David Houle
By David Houle
The Eurozone is a mess. Mathematics, common sense, recognition of a changed reality, and, yes, democracy have all taken a back seat to a deep-seated, ego-related loyalty to a broken idea from the 20th century. This is one of a number of situations today where legacy thinking from the last century is propping up institutions and ways... more
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