Gerald Celente in New Zealand

March 29, 2006 on 9:11 pm | In Entrepreneur |

I caught on the news yesterday that US Trends Guru, Gerald Celente had just spent a week in New Zealand. Too bad I didn’t pick up the trend that he was coming to New Zealand before he arrived

Anyway, he had some interesting stuff to say about this little country in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. Mostly encouraging words on how New Zealand can position itself to benefit from the possible trends that could occur in the near future.

He says that these opportunities, if they happened, would occur because on New Zealands relative isolation - something that many people here believe is a handicap to New Zealand.

These include:

1. Becoming a leading centre in ‘Wellness’ as the worlds population ages. Clean green environment, open spaces, nature (think Lord of the Rings scenery here).

2. A leader in self sustaining housing as ’simplicity hip’ sees people downsizing their lifestyles and looking towards not needing power and sewerage systems for their homes when they are on fixed incomes and want to reduce bills.

3. Relative isolation from pandemics such as SARS, Avian Flu and Mad Cows Disease, could see NZ positioning itself to offer quality food products at a premiunm to a section of society.

I have lived here now for a little over 4 years and find myself nodding my head up and down to some of what Celente has to say.

However, what got me really thinking when I heard what Celente had to say about trends in general, is that it would be worth checking out his website, Trends Research Unit, to get some ideas for software products and websites that could be useful in the coming years.

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