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Michael Zey
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MORRISTOWN, NJ (Expansionary News Service) December 29, 2003. One of the leading organizations  in the fields of forecasting, strategic future planning, and management consulting, the Expansionary Institute (www.zey.com) has issued its list of events and trends to keep an eye on in 2004.

     According to the Institute’s Executive Director, Dr. Michael G. Zey, 2004 will see many momentous changes on the political and economic landscape.  Dr. Zey, internationally-known futurist and author of the forthcoming new edition of “The Future Factor”, contends that “The electronics and  computer revolution will continue to change the way we communicate, and how we work”.  Also, he sees economic growth ahead, along with a recovering job market.

Here are some other fearless predictions for 2004:

1. China’s mega-growth becomes both a boon and a bane for U.S. and Europe. China challenges us in space, and on the world economic scene. However, it also provides a ready market for U.S. investment and goods.

2. The major TV networks continue to lose viewers, to Internet, chat groups, video games.

3. World commodity prices begin to soar, as China’s need for everything from oil to cotton to precious metals dramatically expands.

4. Labor shortages emerge in the U.S., caused by the booming economy along with baby boomer retirement (the oldest  boomers are nearing sixty).

5. Nov. 2 Bush wins in hotly contested presidential election, as Dean proves more formidable than expected.

6. Nov. 3, mainstream press anoints Hillary Clinton the next president.

7. Because of growing homeland security concerns, immigration begins to emerge as a political issue.

8. Electronic communications revolution continues: hand-held Internet devices becomes commonplace. Broadband becomes standard in more U.S. homes.

9.  After years in the shadows, cold fusion resurfaces as part of solution to energy problems.

10. Hybrid fuel-cell cars such as the Honda Insight  and the Toyota Prius steadily  increase market share. Hybrids fuel efficiency will be main selling point.


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About Michael G. Zey
Dr. Michael G Zey is the author of the soon to be published new edition of “The Future Factor: The Five Forces Transforming Our Lives and Shaping Human Destiny” (Transaction Publishers), “Seizing the Future: The Dawn of the Macroindustrial Era” (Simon and Schuster, hardcover; Transaction Publishers/ Paperback), as well as several other books.
Dr. Michael Zey’s controversial and original views on social and techno-trends have appeared in the LA Times, Worth, the Christian Science Monitor, Entrepreneur, La Liberation (Paris), Newsweek (Japan), The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, ABCnews.com, Radio Free Europe, La Monde, and XMSatellite’’s USAToday/Newstalk station, NJ Business,  as well as on WABC’s “Batchelor and Alexander Show” and Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Conversations with Tom Clark”. He has been interviewed for The Wall Street Journal Report, CNBC, CNN, and The Turning Point. His ideas on life extension and near-immortality have been featured in hundreds of news outlets worldwide, including Brazilian Globotv network program “Jornal Nacional”, the Reuters News Service, The Times of India, Pravda, The Manila Times, Newark Star Ledger, Yahoo News, CNN.com, The Seattle Times, Gente (Italy) Independent Online (South Africa), Intellectual Conservative (Arizona), The Arizona Star, ABC Online, Wired News, America Online’s “Welcome” page and Health section as well as numerous other sources.
Zey has been interviewed about the space program and NASA’s future by the Philadelphia Inquirer, radio stations in the UK and Ireland, and was invited to comment on WOR in New York. and He has been an invited guest on FoxNews, PBS’s Nightly Business Report, and ABC’s 20/20.
He serves as Executive Director of the Expansionary Institute (www.zey.com) is a Full Professor at Montclair State University, NJ., and consults to corporations and government agencies.
(Source: Expansionary News Service, Morristown, NJ.)