Jeremy Rifkin: The Foundation on Economic Trends. Global CEO Study: The Enterprise of The Future 2010/04/17 12:11: Global CEO Study: The Enterprise of The Future. The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future - Pew R. By Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie Most surveyed believe that innovative forms of online cooperation could result in more efficient and responsive for-profit firms, non-profit organizations, and government agencies by the year 2020.
By an overwhelming margin, technology experts and stakeholders participating in a survey fielded by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center believe that innovative forms of online cooperation could result in more efficient and responsive for-profit firms, non-profit organizations, and government agencies by the year 2020. A highly engaged set of respondents that included 895 technology stakeholders and critics participated in the online, opt-in survey. In this canvassing of a diverse number of experts, 72% agreed with the statement: Some 26% agreed with the opposite statement, which posited:
Trend POV is... The-world-in-2025-report_en.pdf (application/pdf Object) Ten-Year Forecast. For nearly four decades, the Ten-Year Forecast program has been a leading source of foresight for a vanguard of business, government, and nonprofit organizations.
It is a platform for sensing today’s latent signals, tracking their intersections to understand the ecosystem of choices, and then designing platforms for future resilience. 2014 Research Agenda The 2014 Ten-Year Forecast finds the world in an era of rapid evolution at the scale of entire ecosystems. We now know that species can evolve in a matter of generations, often "pretesting" apparently dysfunctional adaptations–only to discover that future conditions demand just this adaptation. This is what complexity theorist Stuart Kaufman calls the "inventive search for new hypotheses. " Our 2014 program will target such landmark hypotheses. Deliverables Overview Ten Projects, Ten Hypotheses. Alvin + heidi toffler {futurists} Revolutionary Wealth This book is about the future of wealth, visible and invisible -- a revolutionary form of wealth that will redesign our lives, our companies and the world in the years now speeding toward us.
To explain what that means, the pages ahead will deal with everything from family life and jobs to time pressures and the mounting complexity of everyday life. They will deal with truth, lies, markets and money. They will cast surprising light on the collision of change and anti-change in the world around us -- and inside ourselves. Today's wealth revolution will unlock countless opportunities and new life trajectories, not only for creative business entrepreneurs, but for social, cultural and educational entrepreneurs as well. Today emails and blogs bombard us. Simultaneously, criminal street gangs from Los Angeles roam across Central America and build a quasi-army, and 13-year-old aspiring terrorists depart France for the Middle East. The top 10 trends for the 2010s: the most exciting decade in hum. In his excellent book The Meaning of the 21st Century, James Martin asks when in human history you would most like to be alive.
For me there is no question that it is now. The coming decade will be the most exciting in human history. The very challenging year of 2009 that we are preparing to bid farewell to helped to tear up the fairly linear progress of the first decade of the century. Now, technological and social change are poised to accelerate far beyond what we have become accustomed to. A critical uncertainty is how well we will respond to this extraordinary pace of change, both as individuals and as societies. Tyler's Blog. BECAUSE I CAN: Reality, Fantasy and Sustainability, Part 1. “All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.” - Carl Jung (1875 - 1961) In December as the weather gets colder (especially for us in the Northern Hemisphere) and the year winds down, there is the tendency to get somewhat introspective. Aside from the regular balancing act of getting into the “Holiday Spirit” whilst managing year-end business activities, this year many of us in the and abroad are faced with the harsh economic realities of the “noble experiment” of a democratic/capitalistic society gone out of control. Despite efforts of the Obama Administration to curtail this crisis, the faces the highest unemployment rate in 26 years (over ten percent). So who, in the long term, will be paying for all of this? With all of this in mind, it’s hard not to turn inward and/or introspective when those around us wish us “HAPPY HOLIDAYS!” Why? The Distasteful Notion of “Fantasy” in an Adult-oriented World Thank you, Mr.
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