Spirituality, World Religion, Christianity, Church
I will never forget the first person I met with AIDS: a young student in London in 1987. I can tell you the hour, the day, the month.
Just one person sick in a London hospital, out of 72 million who have been infected so far with HIV, of which half have already died, mainly in Africa. For the rest of my life, I will go on re-living that traumatic moment. Let me explain why. It led to a national and international people movement, mobilising churches to make a difference.
I had been asked to visit the AIDS ward, as a cancer doctor, to advise the medical team on how to relieve the symptoms of those who were very sick and dying. I had no idea what I was going to find. I knew very little about AIDS, and I confess I was quite anxious about it all....
Future Trends, Economy, Markets, Keynote Speaker
My new global trends book is out now:
The Future of Almost Everything. But it takes at least 20 years to evaluate how good a trends analyst was / is – so what about forecasts made by me in previous books, about what to expect over the following decade or two or three? How did those forecasts measure up? I had to answer that question for myself by re-reading what I wrote in the past about the future, before writing my latest book. Read
FREE SAMPLE of The Truth about Almost Everything.
So you can judge for yourself, here are loads of predictions I made in the past - and the book in which they were made plus date. Every one of these is already a reality or looks like it soon could be, as of August 2015....And yes I got some things wrong - not many fortunately.
Read more: Can a Futurist REALLY predict the future? Here's loads of predictions I made over last 20+ years in 16 Futurist books and as a Futurist keynote speaker