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• Wednesday, August 06, 2008 8:31 AM

  The Shape of Things to Come

  Sorry for the recent low levels of blog activity. In addition to the usual summer doldrums, I've been wrapping up a bunch of projects and tooling up for a busy fall season of writing and speaking. For the past couple of weeks, I have been focused on revising Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Web 2.0, futurism, IT, collaboration and social computing

• Monday, May 12, 2008 6:46 AM

  On the Road

  Travelling this week on some book-related business. First stop is the ACORD LOMA conference in Las Vegas, where I will be talking about a new study on Millennials, technology and the scramble for young talent in the insurance industry, commissioned by Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: futurism, management, meta

• Sunday, March 30, 2008 1:13 PM

  More on Blue-Collar High Tech

  I saw this piece in today's Seattle Times, headlined " Industrial Work Force Short on Tech Savvy ." It's yet another reminder that the skills gap is making itself felt in the US economy, sector by sector, even in the midst of a looming recession. Anyone Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: futurism, workforce development, blue collar

• Saturday, March 29, 2008 11:57 AM

  Digital Citizenship

  Shelly Palmer has a very interesting piece up at the Huffington Post titled " US Digital Deficiency Jeopardizes Super-Power Status ." No time to comment at length, but here's a taste: Children born in America this year will be the first true Digital Natives Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Politics, futurism, Social Trends

• Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:08 AM

  Ghosts of Futures Past

  Arthur C. Clarke, one of the great visionaries of science fiction, died yesterday at the age of 90. I remember reading his book Imperial Earth when I was about 12 years old and thinking how cool it was that in the future, everyone walked around with computers Read More... Posted by Rob | 1 Comments Filed under: futurism

• Monday, February 11, 2008 9:24 AM

  Plotting the Future of the Workforce

  Although it's important to get people of all ages on the same page with technology in today's workforce, the issue becomes really important over the next 10 years. Right now, organizational leadership roles that correlate to experience and seniority are Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: organizational culture, Boomers, Generation X-ecutive, futurism, Millennials, management

• Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:25 PM

  Tunnel Vision

  Over the weekend, the New York Times Magazine ran an excerpt from Parag Khanna's new book under the headline " Waving Goodbye to Hegemony ." It spins a future scenario in which US economic, cultural and diplomatic power cannot recover from the damage Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: futurism, economics, Social Trends

• Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:23 AM

  The End of Imperfect Capitalism

  Economists despise information asymmetries in markets, because theoretically, "perfect" information leads to optimized pricing. That is, the price of everything reflects the highest amount people are willing to pay, so the allocation of resources best Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: futurism, economics, IT