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Leadership Norfolk Future Trends
The Leadership Norfolk Class was asked to pick three of the following 12 Megatrends that are going to affect our world, in preparation for next month's class. Each participant will come up with two references or 'factoids' about the trend and one quote. Please join in this exercise!
1) Energy - changing from fossil fuels to hydrogen and alternate fuels
ex: Anything into Oil
What is the Hydrogen Economy?
Quote: As Jeremy Rifikin postulates in his book The Hydrogen Economy : “A decentralized, hydrogen-energy regime offers the hope, at least, of connecting the unconnected and empowering the powerless. When that happens, we could entertain the very real possibility of "reglobalization," this time from the bottom up, and with everyone participating in the process.”
2) The Limits of Representative Democracy - Representative Democracy confronts the challenges of accelerating change.
3) Global Warming - We face an increase of 2.5 degrees F to 10.5 degrees F over the next 100 years.
4) New Diseases - Unknown viruses and resistant bacteria are emerging.
5) Changing Demographics - The differential aging and youth of the world population creates an economic and social time bomb.
6) Reduction in Biodiversity - 1/2 of existing species could be lost in the next fifty years.
7) Technological Singularity - We are approaching a moment when runaway advances outstrip human comprehension and all our knowledge and experience becomes useless as a guidepost to the future.
8) Cognitive Complexity and Continuous Innovation - Real time change requires a new way of thinking and seeing connections as the world becomes increasingly complex.
9) Clashing Civilizations and Terrorism - The confrontation of Islamic and Western cultures will create an environment of mutual anger, distrust and even hate unless new types of bridges are built.
10) Three Economies in Churn - We are in a thirty-year transition from an Industrial Economy to a Creative Knowledge Economy to an Electronic Web/Network Economy.
11) National Boarders May Disappear - As poverty confronts economic affluence, communications connect and travel expands, immigration will overpower the capacity of borders to control human migration.
12) Artificial Intelligence Emerges - The concept of what it means to be human will change as a result of the rise of artificial intelligence, biotechnology and nanotechnology.
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