"THE BEST WAY THE PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT YOURSELF"
Peter's Law
So if you are planning to create the future, it is important to plan it and have excellent financial backing...you know, Venture Capital. There are a group of people who are building your future at the Singularity University. They will be holding a two-day conference in June 2014, in New York City. The theme for this year is exploring exponential finance. For exponential technologies are transforming every industry and are creating existential threats to most business, investments, client base and even Wall Street. Exponential technologies are disruptive technologies coming for you at exponential rate.
The people that want to predict and thereby create our future are those involved with the major technology companies. Within this group is Singularity University and their aim is to prepare HUMANITY for ACCELERATING TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE. A very heady and presumptuous endeavor indeed. This year the grad students and presenters are holding a 2 day conference in NYC, to explore exponential finance for their exponential technologies that will be transforming EVERY INDUSTRY and which could definitely mean threats to your business with the accelerated disruptive technologies.
The point is that in the next 10 years 40% of the S&P (Fortune 500) companies will no longer exist due to exponential growth of disruptive technologies. Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Synthetic biology and digital manufacturing (to name a few) will all be transforming how companies are started, how services are delivered and who invests in them. Some examples of this exponential disruption are how I-Tunes destroyed the record store. SKPE is working on ending land line for long distance. Amazon has destroyed the bookstores. Ebay is on its way to demolishing the local stores and Craig's List has killed the newspaper.
We are fast heading towards a transformation of every aspect of our life. We are being promised that all of this technological progress will benefit the whole world to meet the needs of everyone on the planet. That sounds very Utopian. There are many things to be aware of now. The pace of acceleration is exponential. How can we prepare for this? Many years ago Alvin Toffler (Futurist) predicted that the rapid rate of change would cause a new disease called "FUTURE SHOCK." Because people would not be able to keep up with how fast everything would be changing. If we aren't there yet...I predict it is at our doors!
BY THE WAY...Peter Diamandis (yes, that is the Peter of Peter's Laws) is Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Singularity U.
AND BY WAY OF INTEREST AND ALONG THIS SAME LINE: Eric Schmidt (Executive Chairman of Google) was on Charlie Rose tonight, February 25, promoting his book to be available in paperback next week, THE NEW DIGITAL AGE: RESHAPING THE FUTURE OF PEOPLE, NATIONS, AND BUSINESS. He said (lots) of significance to this post:
"It's all about CREATING THE FUTURE!"