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America's Future is not the Internal Combustion Engine

America's Future is not the Internal Combustion Engine

Dec 5, 2008

If there is a bailout of the Big Three, it should include alternative energy metrics against which the three companies compete for better loan repayment terms. The company that most rapidly converts its’ entire fleet to an average of 45 mpg, starts mass production of electric plug in and electric hybrid cars should have significantly better terms – including forgiveness of most of the loans – than the company that comes in second. There has been much discussion about whether America can afford to allow its’ auto industry to go down the tubes. This implies that the Big Three represent the totality of America’s automotive production.

David Houle

David Houle

David Houle is a future thinker, speaker and strategist who advises organizations about dynamic trends. He is the author of The Shift Age. Evolution Shift
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Three Cheers for Titanium Dioxide!

Three Cheers for Titanium Dioxide!

This post goes into that age old category of ‘learn something everyday’.  As regular readers of this blog know, I believe that we must do everything we can to both find alternative sources of energy and slow down the accelerating global warming trend. One of the key ways to accomplish both of these is through technological innovation.

Cell Phones Are Transformative

Cell Phones Are Transformative

It can be argued that the three most transformative technologies of the last twenty years
are the personal computer, the Internet and the cell phone.  I have written often in Evolution Shift about the first two, but not of the third, until now.