David Pearce Snyder, Life-Styles Editor of The Futurist magazine, is a data-based forcaster whose thousands of seminars and workshops on strategic thinking have been attended by representatives from most of the Fortune 500 companies and from local and federal government agencies, educational institutions and trade associations.

Before entering private practice as a consulting futurist in 1982, Mr. Snyder was Chief of Information Systems, and later, Senior Planning Officer for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, where he designed and managed the Service's Strategic Planning System. He was also a consultant to the RAND Corporation, and served as an instructor for the Federal Executive Institute, and for Congressional and White House staff development programs.

He is the editor/co-author of five books, including Future Forces and a sequel, America in the 1990s, both published by the American Society of Association Executives.

David Pearce Snyder has appeared on Nightline, the Today Show, CNN, MSNBC, and the BBC World Service.

In great demand as both a speaker and a writer, David Pearce Snyder has published over 100 studies, articles, and reports on the future of US institutions, industries, and professions.

1. Extrapreneurship - In The Company Of Competence:
Snyder spells out the specific managerial, organizational and operational changes and innovations that are enabling individual firms and government agencies to achieve superior performance during the current era of rapid techno-economic transformation.
2. Living In The USA - 100 Million Households In Revolutionary Times:
A lively scenario depicting the ways that millions of families - America's most adaptive institutions - are dealing with the return of prosperity, and with living and working longer in a world increasingly filled with info-mated goods and services.
3. High Tech And Free Trade In The 21st Century:
Freed from the artificial barriers of the Cold War and protectionist tariffs, the world's economies are being stirred by access to new markets and exposure to new competition. As the world's political leaders and financial institutions seek to re-stabilize international commerce through regional trading blocs - NAFTA, MERCOSUR, the EU, etc. - the World Wide Web is fostering the rapid growth of new economic relationships; new flows of goods and services, new commercial partnerships and mutual interests that will eventually become the basis of the post-industrial global economy.