It was an honor to be part of Sarasota TEDx 12-12-12. The theme of the event was “Creativity Matters”. Throughout the day creativity was manifested by talks, performances and creative interactions. Held in the Ringling Museum and the historic Asolo Theater it was a wonderful event. The talk I gave at the end of the […]
Since the beginning of the Transformation Decade in 2010, I have been saying that education at all levels will undergo transformation by 2020. The book I wrote with Jeff Cobb, “Shift Ed: A Call to Action for Transforming K-12”, published in early 2011, called for nothing less than transformation. Reform is an outdated word and […]
Almost three years ago, on 01-01-10 I wrote a column called “The Transformation Decade”. On this digital date I suggested that this decade would be shaped by massive transformation. The dictionary definition of transformation is “a change in nature, shape, form or character”. This means that this ten-year period will be a decade when most […]
We have left the Information Age and entered the Shift Age. This new age is an era of transformation unparalleled in terms of the amount of change that will occur is the next 20-30 years. As long time readers of this column know, I have been writing and speaking about the Shift Age since 2007 […]
A New Book – “Entering the Shift Age” This has been a year of extremely productive writing for me. Long time readers of this column may question that, as the frequency of columns here has been less in 2012 than in the prior six years. The reason is that over the last twelve months I […]
It is the end of November 2012. We now know who the President of the United States will be for the next four years. We know all about the results of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. A month from now we will know that the Mayan Prophecy did not mean that the world would end. […]
When the 2012 election returns came in, I was in Sydney Australia. The view was high level and from afar. This reminded me of a forecast I had made about a high level forecast of mine from far back in 2007 about the 2012 election. The specifics of the outcome were, in fact what I […]
[ This first appeared a week ago in my Shift Age Newsletter. ] In the first eight months of 2011, I made some economic forecasts relative to the global economic landscape. As a futurist, that is part of what I do, as people always ask me about the future, particularly economics. It is only fair […]
In my last column, I wrote about attending Burning Man for the first time here in 2012. I included lots of links that I highly recommend you click on if you have not yet done so as they will provide a basic understanding of and the beauty of Burning Man. At the end of that […]
As noted last week, I made my first trip to Burning Man this year. It became clear to me about a year ago that I had to go this year. 2012 is obviously a year much about the future so this was finally the year. Obviously many other people felt that way as well as […]