1. Bigger is Not Better: the notion that bigger is better is broken. With the fiasco of AIG, Bear Sterns, GM, Freddie Mac, people will not view bigger as better. This will allow smaller companies to take center stage.
   
   
2. Green is In: the green movement is in and greed is out. Again the fiasco of AIG, Bear Sterns, GM, Freddie Mac, plays a big part in the new green movement. This will allow more social businesses to flourish.
   
   
3. Money to Do Good: the money that was lost could have been used to do good. People will put more investments into companies that are aligned with their values.... like protecting the environment.
   
   
4. Friends Become Stock Experts: we will value the opinion of our friends and family more than our stock-brokers. This will create a thriving network of informal investment networks.
   
   
5. Rise of Alternative Networks: the Green Stock Exchange, North America's first ethical stock exchange to re-shape the market ia one example of an alternative network.
   
   
6. More Stay at Home Businesses: due to the technology and Internet revolution, there will be more and more people starting home businesses. It is now feasible to run an entire business from home via virtual offices.
   
   
7. Music Becomes Long Tail: the music industry is being reshaped by music downloads. It will allow smaller artists to make a better living, while larger artists to make less money, unless the traditional artists with big record contracts embraces download technology. Also, artists will have to tour more to make their money.
   
   
8. Need to Splurge: once we come out of the recession in 2010, some people will start to spend like crazy again. It is like not having sex for 1 year...
   
   
9. Escape to Dream World: as the recession sets in people will need to escape to another world. Hits during the recession will be funny movies, action movies, upbeat music, video games, reality TV show contests, romance novels, sex videos, and anything of fantasy.
   
   
10. Family Focus: this is the end of the era of the latch key child. Parents will become more kids oriented and give the best to their kids. Kids will become more spoiled as families become smaller. The best business is family business, such as family movies, games, big screen televisions ...etc.
    

About Artist David Kam's History of Creativity

Energy Drink Pioneer

In the 1990s he pioneered the energy drink category with friends, after noticing people lining up to buy ginseng root in Chinatown. He and his friend worked in the kitchen and developed the recipe for the energy drink, which was named E=MC², named after Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

He negotiated a 5 year franchising-licensing agreement with Grey Beverages, the largest independent bottler in Canada (now owned by Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group) in Western Canada (population 2 million people). The E=MC² Energy Drink outsold the Red Bull Energy Drink 5 to 1 and was the # 1 Energy Drink in the market where it was distributed. It quickly became the highest profit product after bottled water for Grey Beverages and the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group in Western.

However, distribution was discontinued when a Vice President of the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group declared energy drink to be a fad and subsequently replace it with FruitWorks. Pepsi never quite caught up to Red Bull after that. The E=MC² Energy Drink was then sold only as as a limited edition item.

Internet Pioneer

David predicted the rise of the Internet in 1995, after his advertising agency saw an article describing the Internet. He quickly built his first website in 1996, for the E=MC² Energy Drink. It was the first website for drinks on the web at that time. He acquired several domain names, including DRINKS.COM and EMC2.COM, when there were less than 100,000 domain names registered worldwide. In 1996, he created the world's first Internet ordering system by linking his online website to a customized accounting software that was built by a couple of friends.

In 1996, his best friend told David to spend $20,000 to register about 10,000 generic domain names. Although David saw the rise of the Internet, due to the lack of money, he put the money into the E=MC² Energy Drink business instead. David believes that was the dumbest mistake he ever made and still regrets it till this day.

Art Pioneer

On September 12, 2001, the day after 911, David became an artist by founding the Thinkism Art Movement, thus creating the first fine art movement of the 21st century ("known as the socially conscious art movement").

Thinkism Art Movement The Thinkism art movement (known as the socially conscious art movement) was founded by David Kam on September 12, 2001, one day after September 11, 2001. Thinkism is the first fine art movement of the 21st century. Some famous fine art movements of the 20th century include pop art (Andy Warhol), cubism (Pablo Picasso) and abstract expression (Jackson Pollock). The Thinkism Art Movement was founded by David Kam to change perception of art as mere wall decorations. Art can be a beacon of light to brighten up your mind, to guide your soul, and much more. Art can also be a vehicle for positive social change. Thinkism is an ideological art movement, which some people view as “protest art”, but it is more than that. David wants art to become a rich source of food to enrich the mind, and to feed the soul .Thinkism art explores man's (woman's) relationship to the world, the world's relationship to man (woman), and man's (woman's) relationship to each other. You can say, that Thinkism Art Movement is mainly about bringing a higher social consciousness to "relationships". Thinkism art employs elements of the six senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell and spirit) to inspire the viewer to think about making positive changes in their life, and in society. Art can be meaningful beyond words, beyond culture, and language. David Kam feels there is a certain responsibility for artists to create works of art that shed new light on various social issues, philosophical issues, political issues, environmental issues, psychological issues, religious issues, and other complex matters.  Currently, the issues being explored David Kam in Thinkism art includes: love, freedom, racism, gun control, the universe, the resilience of nature, freedom, liberty, the metamorphosis of people, computers in society, the Internet, television advertising on children, energy, dominance of multi-national corporations, globalization, money, the dot com corporations, animals facing extinction, terrorism, fashion in society, the role of money in society, the fine line between advertising and false advertising, food in society, and sex in society.  David believes that ordinary person can become a catalyst for positive social change. This was the foundation of David's idea that art itself can empower positive social change. The creation of the Thinkism art movement is to use art to empower individuals to think about their own life in relationship to themselves, toward others, and towards the world.