I've been practicing Baby Name Wizardry for a decade now, and I've seen plenty of
changes in name trends.
Not exact matches
This bizarre anecdote is a microcosm of a much larger
trend common to the technology sector: harnessing the power of a
name — or
in some cases, a
name change.
(Reuters)- Many obscure companies are pivoting operations or
changing their
names to cash -
in on the cryptocurrency wave,
in a
trend reminiscent of the dotcom boom.
«We understand Hong Kong may not want to
change its tradition for one company, but we firmly believe that Hong Kong must consider what is needed
in order to adapt to future
trends and
changes,» wrote Joe Tsai, an executive vice chairman at Alibaba, the biggest
name in Chinese e-commerce.
IN Mining Briefs today: Navarre hits Victoria gold; Antipa identifies copper
trend; De Grey extends lithium; Carpentaria encounters more iron; and Zambezi
changes its
name.
To tap into cultural indicators of individualism, Grossmann and Varnum looked at
trends in baby
names over time (from Social Security Administration data),
changes in word usage
in books over time (using the Google Ngram database), and shifts
in family structure, including family size and prevalence of multigenerational households (using U.S. Census data).
There has been,
in my opinion, a
trend, not really appreciated by most, which is stable extreme weather, one can
name many zones of the world having some extreme fascet of continous drought, rain, heat and mostly
changes in dominant wind directions for extended periods of time, which is
in itself unusual.
«Aside from internalizing technology on an everyday basis to run your real estate business... there are some very huge tech
trends that literally can
change everything as we know it,» said Niraj Ranjan Rout, cofounder and CEO of Hiver, which publishes the Gmail app of the same
name,
in an email interview about the biggest tech
trends of 2017.