beyond 2020: keynote for grand island chamber

what is your image of the future?

“If you don’t go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your present will be impoverished.”

Edward Lindaman

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Henry Ford

not a mystery

ahead in hope: lessons from the future

• six converging forces •  old and young •  technology acceleration •  globe races ahead •  century of easy cheap

energy winds down •  sustainability broadly

defined •  income gap economics

technology acceleration

connectivity | convergence | 3D

nanotechnology | biotech

Americas 14% World Population

its a wide wide world

EU, CIS, M.E., Africa 33% World Population

China, India, Japan, SE Asia, Australia

53% World Population

Americas $2T

EU-CIS $5.5T

Asia $4T

the coming energy boom

• next gen fossil fuels

• cars

• power plants

• buildings and appliances

• wind & solar

sustainability: challenge of food security

•  global population growth from 7 billion to ~ 9 billion means....

•  in the next 40 years we have to produce as much food as we used to produce over centuries

•  requires 21st Century agriculture

future challenge: income gap economics

knowledge value economy

it’s what a

product or

service - or person knows

must find new and better ways to provide high-quality learning to millions of additional students between now and 2025.

knowledge value needs…..knowledge

what is your image of the future?

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Michelangelo

the future is not something that just happens to us

the future is something we do

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