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This series of photo-collages is a graphic rumination on something that both Jewish and Gentile Americans cannot really comprehend. Including me. What would it be like to know that you, your family and friends, and places of work and worship could be blown up at moment’s notice? That is the daily reality for all Israelis. Iran has no real grievances with the modern Jewish state of Israel or Jews. In fact, Jews have lived continuously in Persia (today's Iran) for about 2,700 years. During WWII...

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Attributed to Albert Einstein The digital mindscape has brought misinformation, wrong-headedness, propaganda, and psychological manipulation to a level not even imagined by the visionary writer George Orwell in his prescient classic, 1984. When issues are complex, or concepts are abstract, metaphors are a cognitive tool that can help us distill and simplify the information. At a time when information changes...

What Alvin Toffler’s iconic 1970 book got right, wrong, and missed about the world of 2025 and how his insights might help us better navigate the 21st Century. This blog post was created for a presentation scheduled for mid-November 2025 at ASPEC at Eckerd College. That puts it at the end of this year’s hurricane season. Last year at this time, the college was literally under water. The Tampa Bay had been struck by a double whammy of once-in-a-century hurricanes named Helene and...

My two basic paradigms when considering the world about two generations from now are: First, any technology that produces wealth, wins wars, or confers social status will be adopted almost immediately by government and business elites regardless of current ethics, social norms, or societal disruption. Second, any process or situation that is unsustainable will stop. An old friend and distinguished futurist told me many years ago that gypsy fortune tellers make predictions using a crystal ball...