Hello World!

This is my first test post from a coffee place in New York. It is a fiercely hot July morning.

I am starting this blog because the world is changing so fast in such complex ways it is hard to keep up. People are floundering amidst economic change.

Which people and organizations are doing interesting things to adjust to the revolution in the economy? How will people make a living? How can people find opportunities when the whole nature of the economy is changing?

There is plenty of ideology out there, of course, much of it mildewed and stale. Plenty of business ideas and consumer fads and creative destruction - failing media, declining finance, disappearing middle-skill jobs.

The old industrial economy is disappearing. The new economy offers genuine new possibilities - but the news is dominated by financial crisis and unemployment. The destuction seems to overwhelm the creativity, at least in economic terms.

Maybe we have come to the end of an economic era.

Where is the new growth, the new things to do, the new practical ways to find a better way to live? It is time to stop being passive victims of change and find ways to make it a permanent shift to a better way of life.