4. The Future

"Everyone needs to think differently about the future, a future that is riddled with change, challenge and risk. It is a new kind of future, not the steady plodding of progress from one moment to the next, punctuated by brief bursts of progress from one moment to the next, punctuated by brief bursts of innovation that characterizes much of history. Now we face a post 9/11 future. The future of our lives, of our work, of our businesses—and most of all the future of our world—depend on us gaining new understanding of the dizzying changes that lie ahead."

That is a profound statement.

1. Excerpt from James Canton’s “The Extreme Future: Th e Top: Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 5,10 and 20 Years”