Occupation: Professor Birth: 1954
Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket..
There is reason to be scared. Look at what has happened with fundamentalism - this is a reaction against modernity. It happens to be cloaked in relig….
The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present.
Google was the right set of people at the right time, and they ended up doing the right set of things. It's worth looking at how they are managed. Th….
We've become more and more interrupt-driven. If you have six tasks to do in an hour, you can't just take 60 minutes and divide and have 10 minutes pe….
People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way it routes around….
The difference between our collective generation and your generation (differentiating the reporters from the students) is that we poured our souls ou….
My driving style is alert. As a forecaster, I can't help but think about who else is on the road and how little attention they are paying to their dr….
I've actually tried not to call myself a futurist for the last 25 years. I prefer "forecaster," but people call me a futurist, and it doesn't really ….
Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day..
I think the most important thing that a company can do, not just in the customer space but the employee space, is to be completely open and completel….
The arrival of television established a mass-media order that dominated the last 50 years. This is a personal media revolution. The distinction betwe….
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box..
I can't imagine how you can find the discipline to be emotionally detached reporting on a revolution, the winds of which are blowing right down the h….
I think companies over the last 10 years have done a very bad job of explaining to their employees what the intrinsic risks are. All I know is, if yo….
I'm actually an optimist about what lies ahead. Are wikis reliable? It depends on the specific business. Is Wikipedia reliable? You bet. Wikipedia is….
The most important thing that a company can do in the midst of this economic turmoil is to not lose sight of the long-term perspective. Don't confuse….
My advice is don't use technology primarily to lower costs. Use technology to create new, effective ways of touching the market and creating new busi….
Hipness is the only asset that matters..
Digital technology is the solvent leaching the glue out of all of our traditional institutions..
This new economy that's just emerged has a new central economic actor. It's not the worker, the person who produces, nor the person who consumes, the….