What will “work” look like in 2020? What jobs will your kids have? Are they learning what they’ll need to know in school? And what will be the future of entrepreneurship? These are some of the questions we tackle in the August 2014 issue of BeInkandescent.com.

For insights, we turn to two of our favorite futurists—Dr. Andy Hines and Chris Carbone. We all worked together years ago when they headed up the DC-based futurist think tank Social Technologies. Today, Hines runs the Futures Studies program at the University of Houston, and Carbone works for an international futurist firm.

What does a futurist do, exactly? “My job as a futurist is to track international business and consumer trends by reading and analyzing just about anything I can get my hands on,” Carbone explains. “As a result, futurists are able to forecast what life might look like around the bend.”

Pretty cool, right? We think so, and so do our columnists, who in this issue share insights into the future of their industries—including Hiring expert Barbara Mitchell, Wealth columnist CFP Rita Cheng, and our Public Speaking specialists Hilary Blair and Robin Miller. And if you’re a business owner who wonders how technology is changing the advertising industry, turn to the Futurist column, in which Derek Woodgate illuminates the future of advertising.

Plus, in our Self-Help column you’ll find the latest research on the health benefits of coffee. Good news, and something to fuel us as we ponder the future of work.

Also in this issue, we are pleased to launch three new columns:

• Live Love Laughing will be filled with inspirational ideas to help you lighten up at work.

• Intuition Rules features insights on how you can use your innate intuition to help guide your choices in business, and in your life. In this month’s spotlight, our managing editor, Kathleen McCarthy, interviews intuitive guide Eliel Fionn.

• Great Spots to Work—When You Work for Yourself is our new guide-in-progress to the best spots around the country to pop in and work for a few hours. These wonderful establishments embrace small-business owners by giving us a place to work, socialize, and do business away from the office.

We leave you with this parting thought from Abraham Lincoln, who said: “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

Here’s to your incredible, indelible, Inkandescent success! — Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher • Illustration by Michael Gibbs