Josh McHugh

The FORTH report charts the possible course of massive social transformations and explores how emerging technologies might forever alter hospitality and travel businesses, including how climate change could significantly impact travelers’ destination selection.

By 2040, a combination of mega-cities, climate change, an increasing global population and high rates of travel will result in the first influenza-based major pandemic of the 21st century. This will galvanize political will and spur development of technology to accelerate vaccine production and distribution.
As the world’s population lives longer, latent disease and disease of the aged or infirm will increase dramatically.
Globally, lifestyle diseases will reach pandemic levels.

The arrival of COVID-19 is a “black swan,” a rare and near-impossible-to-predict event that has thrown normal life and the industry into chaos. In the middle of such unprecedented disruption, it’s hard enough for the grocery industry to keep up with day-to-day changes in demand, supply and population health data, let alone to think two, five or 10 years down the road. But looking ahead has never been more important.

By looking beyond current even...

A new series of conversations about Regeneration
Not long after dawn on New Year's Day 2019, I was paddling a stand-up board across the glass-smooth Lake Norman near Charlotte, North Carolina, thinking about what I wanted to accomplish in the year ahead, when I saw a plastic bottle floating in my path.
As I knelt down on the board to fish the mossy plastic out of the lake, I had a series of thoughts that combined to form something like a Eureka moment:
We have royally messed up the planet.
I ...

Among the most profound realizations that occurred to our team: at the same time as advanced imaging technology gives us an increasingly clear picture of our present physiological status, the convergent trio of genomics, big data and predictive analytics gives us an increasingly clear line of sight into both our biological past and future. When coupled with advanced technology, DNA turns out to be that most elusive of science fiction plot devices: a working time-travel mechanism.

The general counsels at Microsoft, Google, Cisco, eBay, Yahoo!, Qualcomm, Autodesk, and Oracle—Stanford Law School alums, all—have changed the face of the technology industry and redefined the role of the general counsel.

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William Neukom ’67 looked up from his desk in the Seattle offices of Shidler, McBroom, Gates & Baldwin. William H. Gates, the firm’s managing partner, had just popped his head into Neukom’s office to ask him something: “My son’s coming to Seattle. Would you be the lawyer for...

Costs are skyrocketing, rankings are an obsession, and every contest is a judgment on some kid’s future. Lost is the spirit of playing for now. Every year, parents pull their kids out of sports in protest. And every year, even more new families step forward, willing to play the game.

The more parents spent, the more the kids seemed to feel the pressure of doing well for Mom and Dad.

Utah State University professor and former NFL player who conducted a study showing that the more parents pay f...

Traditional pro sports are at risk of losing a significant portion of their future audience. Here's how they can survive the eSports onslaught.

The world's biggest, best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don't be evil. Now the geek icon is finding that moral compromise is just the cost of doing big business.

Life used to be so much easier for Sergey Brin. In the autumn of 1998, he and Larry Page unleashed Google with a clear mission: Help computer users find exactly what they want on the Internet. ...

A band of rebels think that software's secrets should be as free as the air we breathe. Don't sell Microsoft short -- but don't underestimate the rebels, either....

Stacy Peralta, the director of "Dogtown and Z-Boys," is about to drop his next boarding epic, "Riding Giants," into a theatre near you—and now the Hollywood big time is calling. Josh McHugh rolls up on the auteur of the stoked set.

... to go to Mars. Too bad the journey turns our bodies into mush. NASA's solution: strap down a few civilians and spin them around really fast. By Josh McHugh....

THERE'S A PLEASING objectivity about the slam dunk that sets it apart. The rim is ten feet above the ground, and either you can dunk or you can't. Those hoppy......