In Review - 2013

We can learn an awful lot about our future, by understanding our history.  What did we learn in this last year that we can re-purpose going forward..?

We learned that we're more obviously fractured in our views than perhaps has ever been - Miley Cyrus's twerking and antics gets her to be a front runner for Time's Person of the Year; Rob Ford - Toronto's crack cocaine Mayor with no class was vilified in the local media and yet retained tremendous voter support; and the US government shut down with half the country applauding and half appalled at the tactics used.   Going forward - we should understand that not only are we not all on the same page, we're not even reading the same book much of the time.  We're living in democracy gone wild - and there isn't a galvanizing person or potential issue on the horizon.

The environment and weather also continued to be unpredictable. Globally, we saw new record temperatures, unusual events abounded too such as Cairo's snow and extreme storms popped up all over, this time wiping out a significant portion of the Philippines courtesy of typhoon Haiyan, the strongest ever to make landfall.  The lesson here ?  We should expect the unexpected going forward. Storms will be bigger and stronger, and it'll be both warmer and colder than we are used to.  Patterns we have seen in recent memory won't be the norm.  Call it global warming, call it whatever you want to - just don't expect it to be predictable.