It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

As it say on the top right, the smartphone wars will cause "the global de-construction of wealth, power, jobs, learning, opportunity, interaction, play, access, beliefs and everything everywhere forever."

It's because the smartphone is rapidly spreading throughout the world, falling in price, rising in functionality. It enables the most marginalized women, children -- nations -- to have equivalent access to the very same networks, platforms, information sources, media, data, smartmobs that you have. In other words, a level playing field; only, planet wide, which is why I commonly refer to this era as the age of the GREAT LEVELING.

Think you, or your children, are gonna outwork 6 billion desperate people? Think they can legitimately be in the top 2%? Come on. This is the harsh reality -- and the incredible opportunity -- of the world we we (very soon) face.

You need to be smart in your investments (I have a STOCK picks page and posts). You must understand that which is disappearing, forever. Thus, I post on these just about everyday. Further, you must embrace the opportunity presented by 6 billion people with equivalent tools and technologies. This is why I regularly rank technologies and business models to show you what works -- and what's dying. I have tried to distill the primary future business models into snappy slogans because I think they will be easier to remember:

1. The smartphone is the computer (corolllary: the PC is a dinosaur; what are you building for?)
2. Young brown woman child: the largest untapped market in the world could be your largest market ever!
3. Think locally scale globally (hyperlocal meets hyperglobal; conquer the local first, then you can scale it)
4. Values equal profits: want to stand out? Tell the world of your values. I can spend my money anywhere and almost certainly you can't win on price. Go with values.
5. Real-time is the only time. Make sure you deliver as much information as you can, always, in real-time.
6. Free is the new black. Yeah, this is hard. Give it away. Give it all away. Make money by sucking out all the money in another industry that your giving away has completely disrupted forever.

Good luck!