2020 Web vision

by Robert D. Oberst

Kindle Edition

About the author

The "Time Traveler Series" is Rob’s first venture in historical fiction. As a management consultant, he wrote innumerable pieces for S&P 500 organizations to enable them to harness the latest revolutionary technologies. Progressively honing his craft led Rob to try his hand at writing fiction. Similar to his other books, his latest novels in the “Time Traveler Series” are packed with fascinating history and action-packed stories that translate to modern times, such as the parallels between the current digital revolution and the 15th-century’s printing revolution that, through the rapid spread of knowledge, transformed the world, which inspired the Renaissance, the Reconquista of Spain by Isabella, the subsequent discovery of America by Columbus, and the Protestant Reformation with Henry the VIIIth.

Over twenty years observing how digital technologies evolved, curious about how these would continue to effect our lives over the next twenty years, he wrote first book 2020 Web Vision , which remarkably predicted how these would enhance our homes, businesses and society, especially during the pandemic that presciently struck in 2020. Fortunately, the virtual technologies foreshadowed in the book enabled us to continue to work, learn, shop, eat, and socialize safely, thereby saving thousands of lives. 2020 Web Vision appeared in over a dozen countries on five continents, in universities such as Harvard, and at research facilities.

In the early two-thousands, concerned about our economy, Rob developed a model that predicted a serious recession in 2008. After the Great Recession, he looked for an overarching cause and found that similar crashes had occurred for over the last 150 years, back to the Civil War, encompassing the Great Depression too. The extensive model showed that these long-term downturns occurred whenever a large generation such as the greatest generation or the war boom baby generation retires, and withdraws their overwhelming financial force from the nation’s economy. The prescient model, contained in The Financial Time Machine predicted slow growth for the U.S. and other major world economies for over a decade.

Following his death, Rob discovered his father’s Olympic diary recalling his extraordinary adventure to Paris for the "Chariots of fire Olympics". Gene also excelled as one of the stars of Notre Dame’s first successful football teams led by legendary coach Knute Rockne, the winningest coach in college history. Intrigued by numerous articles in his scrapbook, Rob delved into the era—the “Golden Age of American Sports”, to write Gene ‘Kentuck’ Oberst. Intrigued by the discovery of fifty letters between Gene and Knute describing how Knute acquired his six coaching positions and made it possible for Gene to marry his wife, Catherine, Rob wrote Renaissance Olympian . It follows Gene throughout his college coaching career as he interacts with the legendary coaches and athletes of the 20th Century including his subsequent time as a popular professor and artist. Website = https://globalfuturepress.com/

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[Robert Oberst · Rating 5 out of 5]

Over half of the predictions of this prescient work have come true, such as on-line shopping, movies and education, the virtual office, new migration patterns, the globalization of work, the demise of malls and the first phase of the Cloud. Other predicted innovations such as virtual sales representatives, virtual office clubs, Web delivery centers, elderly care and the second phase of the Cloud are still evolving, but will come to fruition throughout the 2020s.