As I compose this edition of Foresight Friday (on Monday) I thought would post my ChatGPT experiments to my blog so that readers could easily see entire essays without making the email ridiculously long. My first request was to tell […]

Wikipedia, St. Pete’s Tech Giant Turns 20
Wikipedia turns 20 this Friday, January 15, 2021, on what is known as “Wikipedia Day” around the world. Launched on January 15, 2001, “To create and freely distribute a free encyclopedia in all the languages of the world.” Wikipedia now contains […]

Citizen Capitalism uses the power of shareholder influence against the wolves.
Book Review: Citizen Capitalism: How a Universal Fund Can Provide Income and Influence to All Corporations have been hijacked by the wolves of Wall Street. A generation of Gordon Gekkos manage hedge funds that pressure corporations to cut corners in […]

Polyamory: When love, like music is celebrated in abundance
We are all traveling composers on varied relational journeys. Polyamory is the philosophy or state of being in love or romantically involved with more than one person at the same time. About 10 years ago I became acquainted with polyamory […]

TEDxAkron: #UpgradeEconomics
#UpgradeEconomics with #SocialCapital Metrics Social trust driven by our capacity for love and empathy have allowed humans to build civilizations and question everything about our existence and place in the universe. In the last three centuries, however, the pace of […]

Creative Ventures and Careers–‘a sort of public prostitution’
Why we love art yet hate the artist has been an Industrial Age economic necessity Have you considered where the line is between ‘starving artist’ and ‘sellout’ in today’s digital economy? Where everyone is an influencer and monetizing your friends […]

TEDxAkron to Include Economist Vinny Tafuro
Tampa Bay based economist and author Vinny Tafuro has been invited to speak at TEDxAkron on April 21, 2018 at the Goodyear Theater in Akron’s dynamic East End. Author of Corporate Empathy and Unlocking the Labor Cage, Tafuro is a […]

Tide Talks Screening and European Economic Summits
As an economist and author October 2017 is a month full of amazing opportunity for introducing the Unlocking the Labor Cage community to a wider global audiance. Evening Tide Talks Screening On Thursday evening, October 12, 2017 join friends and family at FIVE […]

Corporate Empathy Excerpt: Disney’s Florida Project
Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow (EPCOT) Growing up on Long Island I lived only a couple of miles from Levittown, a planned community of mass produced homes developed between 1947 and 1951. The returning veterans of World War II fueled […]

Why pulling out of Paris Agreement will not change U.S. course on climate change
Human influenced climate change is real my friends. Regardless of Presidential policy. While U.S. government action on climate change oscillates based on party control, the marketplace has increasingly ruled in favor of science. Over the past decade more and more […]