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• Dr. Lowell Catlett - Best Time Ever To Be In Agriculture, 5 Trends

  

  Best Time Ever To Be In Agriculture, The Five Trends That Will Make It Even Better! - Dr. Lowell Catlett, Regents Professor in Agricultural ...
  Dr. Lowell Catlett - Best Time Ever To Be in Agriculture

  

  Best Time Ever To Be in Agriculture - Dr. Lowell Catlett, Regents Professor in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business and Extension ...
• Technology's Long Nose: Dr. Lowell Catlett at TEDxABQ - YouTube

  

Dr. Lowell Catlett Speaking Topics

• Understanding The World’s Largest Economy and Tomorrow’s New Future

  The U.S. economy emerged from its worst recession since 1938 to become the world’s first 15 trillion dollar economy in 2010. It did so because U.S. businesses increased productivity faster than any period on record all the while having the highest profits and largest cash reserves ever recorded. The U.S. is now poised to set the pace for new business activity globally as it became in 2012 the world’s first 16 trillion dollar economy. Manufacturing and construction industries will boom as new technologies change living and working spaces. These new technologies will also create growth in healthcare and agriculture as the demand for new lifestyles worldwide expands. Get ready for phenomenal growth as technology, demographics and new consumer expectations drive new business starts and the reformulation of current businesses.

• Imagining the World of 2020

  Worldwide GDP reached a record high of 70 trillion dollars in 2012 and will continue to grow and prosper in new and creative ways. Creativity, technology and wealth are driving new industries and business development opportunities unlike any period in history. Healthcare, energy, education, finance and agriculture are changing at the fastest pace ever recorded as the new creative economy dominates both the service and manufacturing sectors. Get ready for a world that is increasingly borderless and un-tethered and driven by the fastest rate of change ever recorded in history.

• The New Middle Class

  Open Source Hardware (OSH) and 3-D assemblers are driving the resurgence in manufacturing. It’s small, family-owned, local and often in garages. And the labor force needed for this renaissance is blue collar: people who know how to make things. Untethered Wireless Smart Mobiles (WSM) are connecting everything from healthcare to driverless cars and the labor force needed for this is no-collar
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  • creative types who thrive on cultural clusters. Get ready for a major revolution in education, architecture and lifestyles as the new middle class in America dominates this century.

• New Game, New Rules, New Reality: The Shifting Financial World of the 21st Century

  Just as it is difficult for the average American to imagine a world without running water, indoor plumbing, automobiles and food in abundance, the tectonic plates of the financial world are shifting in major ways. Never in modern history have there been so many people making decisions about lifestyles versus life itself and the consequences to the insurance and financial services industries are staggering. Certainly new products are in order, but just as importantly will be the development of the human capital necessary to help the new consumer live life to its fullest. Healthcare, wealth management and risk management become blurred and integrated in ways never dreamed before-new game, new rules, new reality.

• Agriculture: What the World Needs Now -- More Than Ever

  The Mars rover Curiosity has it and so does agriculture—LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy). Curiosity is using LIBS to look for life and agriculture is using LIBS to help build better lives by measuring carbon, nutrients and moisture in soils for increased yields and a better environment. Mobile apps with molecular and software camera lens monitor everything from plant and animal health to insect infestations and do so with a precision and accuracy that allows agriculture to feed 7+ billion people better than at any time in history all the while fostering a parallel local food system that can be organic and certified to the source. iDNA chips that instantly profiles plants, animals and people and moves agriculture to the forefront of healthcare and energy that has to increasingly control mother nature with precision application of nutrients and moisture. Agriculture becomes the world’s biggest industry because it is part of energy, healthcare, ecology and food.