beyond 2020: keynote for grand island chamber
TRANSCRIPT
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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