Fall is a time of change and new beginnings. The lazy days of summer become a memory. A new school year is upon us. The calendar marches on toward a new year.

In the past few weeks, I have begun what I refer to as my Fall Speaking Tour, during which I am constantly moving around the country, and being at home is more akin to a pit stop. I love what I do, and I love speaking to and interacting with people about the future and what lies ahead. But that is a subject for another column. This …

I travel a lot. Delivering 100+ speeches a year means I am in multiple airports most weeks of the year. This allows me to do an ongoing comparative analysis of airport design: what works, what doesn’t work, and what each city thinks travelers want and need. Many airports are just old-fashioned, out of date and only add to the struggle of travel for that group of people commonly called “road warriors.” “What were they thinking?” or, in my case, “Why didn’t they think?” are the questions that come to mind.

One way to look at this is through the filter of …

Last November, I wrote a column here about the future of cable television.  In that column from last November I forecast:

“Cable television subscriptions will experience noticeable percentage declines in the next three to five years.”

Last week it was announced that for the first time in history paid television subscriptions dropped 216,000 with cable taking the greatest hit.

The conventional wisdom of course is that this is due to the bad economic conditions of today.  Of course that is a factor, but the times have been bad for the past two years.  The new dynamic is what I touched upon …