The Graying Planet Revisited

For anyone seeking to understand the future and exploit that knowledge to his or her own advantage, there is no greater truth than the saying, “Demography equals destiny.”

More precisely, it’s the intersection of demography, technology, and psychographics that determines precisely what’s going to happen. However, demography is by far the most powerful and most predictable of these factors. And today, demography is pointing toward wrenching changes that will redefine our basic assumptions about employees, consumers, and investo.....