Chapter 9: Forecasting the long term

9/1  Cycles versus long term trends: forecasting copper prices
9/1/1  Forecasting IBM's sales
9/2  Long term mega economic trends
9/2/1  Cycles of various durations and depths
9/2/2  Implications of extrapolating long term trends
9/3  Analogies
9/3/1  The Information versus the Industrial Revolution
9/3/2  Five major inventions of the Industrial Revolution and their analogs
9/4  Scenario building
9/4/1  Businesses: gaining and/or maintaining competitive advantages
9/4/2  Jobs, work, and leisure time
9/4/3  Physical versus tele-interactions: extent and speed of acceptance
References and selected bibliography
Exercises

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