Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends that Will Transform Your World

Synopsis

Game-changing trends are coming in business, technology, workforce, economy, security, and environment. Climate change, energy demand, and population growth will redefine global risk and power. Exponential new technologies will emerge in digital money, mobile commerce, and big data. An explosive new middle class of over one billion consumers will enter the marketplace. Every nation, job, business, and person will be transformed. To thrive in this future you have to become predictive, adaptive, and agile--to become Future Smart. Dr. James Canton, a renowned global futurist and visionary business advisor, illuminates the pivotal forces and global power shifts that everyone must understand today to thrive in a rapidly changing landscape: Regenerative medicine will extend our lifetimes and rebuild our bodies Robots and drones will drive our cars, teach our kids, and fight our wars Smart machines will design, manage, and service 40% of all global businesses--energy, commerce, finance, and manufacturing--without humans Digital consumers who live always connected will challenge every business to change its strategy Climate change wars will redefine security and resources Most of us are not prepared to meet the challenges the future will bring, but these changes are coming fast. Armed with knowledge, those who are Future Smart can take action to reinvent themselves, their businesses, and their world.

Copyright:

2015

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

256 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780306822872

Related ISBNs:

9780306822865

Publisher:

DaCapo

Date of Addition:

06/17/21

Copyrighted By:

James Canton

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Technology, Social Studies, Sociology

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.