- active aging population
- affordable luxuries
- age of leisure
- aging population
- alternative energy systems
- alternative medicine
- art resurgence
- artificial intelligence
- automation
- back to basics, keep it simple
- belonging to groups
- big to small
- bio technology
- blue-ray quality
- brain games
- brain food
- community - clanning, buying together, cocooning
- consensus building
- consciousness development
- consumerism
- convenience, time saving
- cooperation vs. competition
- corporate ethics
- cultural nationalism
- customizing, individualizing
- decentralization vs. centralization
- deforestation
- do-it-yourself, self help boom
- down aging, think young, play again
- eat less
- eat fresh, eat local
- environmental concerns
- environmental sustainability
- ethnic mixing
- fantasy adventure, virtual reality
- fast pace society
- food as medicine
- free markets
- fundamentalism
- gay marriage
- global warming
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- globalization
- green goods and services
- high resolution video
- family adventures
- fitness importance
- home delivery services, mail order
- home improvements
- home meal replacements
- icon toppling
- inner authority vs. external
- instant communication
- internet
- intuition development
- know soul vs. belief in soul
- knowledge-based economy
- less unionization
- life long learning
- longevity and anti-aging focus
- male home makers
- mergers and acquisitions
- miniature, portable computers
- minorities more prominent
- more choices
- more working women
- multiple career changes
- multi featured products
- multi player online games
- nano technology
- nationalism
- nature appreciation
- networking - technology
- networking - people
- new spirituality
- nichemanship
- obesity
- older parents
- online everything
- pacific rim economic focus
- participation in higher causes
- personal coaches
- privatization
- product plus ethics, environment, charities as features
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- rebuilding infrastructure
- recycling, reuse
- reduced meat consumption
- regionalism
- retirement lifestyle, retire-ability
- revival of old fads, games, pursuits, nostalgia
- self help
- self healing
- self sufficiency
- shared information
- shorter work week
- simpler lifestyles
- small indulgences (treats)
- small is beautiful
- smaller families
- social conscience
- social media, social networking
- SOS - save our society, environment
- special interest groups
- spending money instead of time
- spirituality definition broadening outside of religion
- team work
- teleconferencing
- touch screens
- traditional values
- triumph of the individual
- unlimited memory storage
- value added products
- vegetarianism
- video conferencing
- virtual residual businesses (internet)
- voice activated
- war on terror
- whole brain intuition vs. left brain thinking
- wildering - farms, 4x4 trucks, camping, acreages, bed and breakfasts
- wireless world
- women in leadership
- work at home
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