Global Trend Integration

Since 1982, Dr. Swenson has spent 30,000 hours integrating trends, data, and experience with a global reach. In a popular sense, this might be illustrated as assembling a gigantic jig saw puzzle with 50,000 pieces. Or, perhaps, connecting a million dots on earth by flying over at 30,000 feet.

To illustrate, the integration Includes (alphabetically): acceleration, archeology, Armenia-Azerbaijan, balance, birth rates, change, China, communication, complexity, Congress, cultures, debt, decent minimums, destructive riots, progress through differentiation & proliferation, economic recessions, entertainment, energy, environment, escalation of the norm, eschatology, exponentiality, faith, film and literature, global travel to sixty countries, healthcare reform and costs, Hurtling thesis, imbalance, immigration issues, India/Kashmir/Pakistan, information, the invisible/hidden world, intensity, interconnectedness, Israel, market volatility, margin originator, margin in emotional energy-physical energy-time-finances, media broadly defined, medicine including practitioner burnout, the Middle East, NASA, mathematics, media, missions, mobility, money, more and more of everything faster and faster, movies, invited guest participant in five-day National Security Seminar at the Army War College (“Not to promote war but to secure peace”), the national debt, opportunity costs, overload, pandemics, the Pentagon, politics, physics including theoretical-quantum mechanics-relativity, profusion, polarization, progress, science and faith, shaking, speaking in 47 states and 5 continents, the separate accounting of good vs bad (positive vs negative), sleep issues, societal paralysis by minority occurrence, South China Sea, speed, sports, stress, suddenness, Syria-Turkey-Iran-Russia,  technology, tightly-coupled systems, time-space-light, transcendence (rising above, overcoming), the United Nations, volatility, and weaponry.

This rigorous analysis of current events and future trends leads to an understanding of what is happening and why.