Goodreads asked Dan Needles:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Dan Needles Globalization has really thrown a wrench into businesses in the USA. That is the most profound thing I have seen in the last decade and I like to "show" what that means. One simple example is the diverting of FEMA funds to Terrorist after 911 which resulted in a much bigger disaster in Katrina AND the complete absence of this realization by the "teenager" like mentality of my young nation - the USA. I like to explore these meta patterns, especially those of culture (aka meta emotions) in the context of business and technology. I find talking about these things in textbooks sort of defeats the purpose. These lessons are experience oriented and MUST be told through stories to be effective.

Of course it also allows me to dabble into the future a bit more as I do like the tangible as well as the esoteric. On the technology side I am looking into realistic means for space travel (aka 1 KG needs to cost $500, not $500K to get into space.) I am also looking into advances in 3d printing, nano technology, and biotech. Of course I thrown in VR and the other technologies touched on in Terminal Connection.

So the short answers is life and my peculiar lens into it which is "shaded" by my autism.

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