Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes

This article consists of the introduction to Mark Penn's book about the niching of America and how there is no One America anymore, instead hundreds of new niches made up of people drawn together by common interests.

Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Chages

INTRODUCTION

In 1960, Volkswagen shook up the car world with a full-page ad that had just two words on it: ThinkSmall. It was a revolutionary idea—a call for the shrinking of perspective, ambition,...

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