The keynote speaker at last week's Home Fashion Products Association meeting hails from sparks & honey, a "next-generation cultural identification agency," which in old-fashioned parlance means a strategic advisory firm that identifies emerging trends and helps companies tap into them. He gave the kind of presentation that both jazzes the listener about the breathtaking possibilities that could arise from technologies now in development ... and at the same time makes one feel fairly blinkered and out of the loop. (By way of example, I refer you to "next-generation cultural identification agency" above.)
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