Given the way our economy and the world economies have performed
over that past 3 decades or so it is easy to develop and negative and
pessimistic outlook for the future. Will the mega rich completely dominate the
world destroying the middle class and eventually and as a result entire
societies and countries? We will so ignore global warming issues that the
planet and ourselves with it cease to exist?
Then we also see divinely inspired (my perspective) wonderful human
responses to folk in need which leads to faith that the Deity will not abandon
us but continue to lead us to a bright future.
There is a blog on the Internet, New World of Work, which is a project of TomorrowToday UK and others. They recently published an article
that brightened my outlook for the future so I will share a condensed form of
what they see for our world future.
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They see 9 trends dealing with work in the future beginning with 1)
increasing global integration; they see huge growth in the future with new markets
and new countries becoming major players such as China becoming the major
economy by 2025 and India overtaking them by 2050.
They also perceive 2) tremendous competition developing from
companies we haven’t even heard of today (i.e. Groupon) accompanied by new
business models involving people differently.
The future will be the 3) world of machines; robots, Internet and
many current people work being replaced.
It will be a (4 super smart world meaning smarter computers with
Moore’s law continuing doubling performance every 24 months until 2030 when
water cooled 3D chips will unleash greater performance with optical and quantum
computing; also telecommunication bandwidth and digital storage growing.
This obviously leads to huge (5 data storage with a “tsunami of
information and companies developing to handling these needs.
They see a world where 6) e-workers and electronic freelancers
gather for major projects and then move on once the project is complete.
They surprise me is seeing the 7) credit and financial crises drive
a more values driven business models. They see capitalism surviving but
dramatically changed more transparent and responsible to society; this will
just make for better marketing with some trust built in.
8) Change will be the norm, revolutionary change where people work
and play much differently than today based upon new countries and economies and
more wealth for all. The big danger (this could have been another point) will
be the competition for water; wars over war being fought along with financial
bubbles and crashes over the next 12 to 40 years.
Finally 10) the workforce will evolve with the huge numbers of
elderly dealing with retirement or non-retirement causing us to rethink how we
promote, motivate and manage the workforce.
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Interesting food for thought.
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