The exponential development of digital technologies is transforming society and business – creating new industries, new organizational models, new business models, and a new open culture where collaboration and sharing is the norm. At the same time that it offers great promise, it has the potential to destroy jobs on a very large scale, as the same forces of automation that have relieved humans of repetitive assembly work now advance toward making many of us unnecessary to service work and even knowledge work.
There is no obvious path through this digital wonderland – we must find our own ways individually and collectively. The future is open; all of us are called upon to enhance the good and mitigate the bad. Your essay will offer your personal insights and forward-looking perspectives on the challenge.
How do you envision your life as a knowledge worker/entrepreneur ten years from now?
How can the capabilities of this "digital wonderland" be leveraged for the benefit of society and individuals?
How can the destructive and dark side of digital technologies be tamed and neutralized? What impact of digital technology do you anticipate in your lifelong learning journey?
Where do you see the best opportunities to create a new Industrial Revolution with digital technologies across all sectors of the economy?
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"Being The Alice Generation"
2. Adarsh Ramesh (IN)
"A Canvas for Tomorrow’s Intellectual Global Village"
3. Abhinav Jha (IN)
"Micro-organizatons and Samvedna: A more effective and empathic knowledge worker"
3. Sam Goan (AU)
"Our recent past as a road map for the future"
5. Nayyara Rahman (PA) "Rich cybercitizen, poor cybercitizen - Indigenous technology development for a better world" | ESSAY |
6. Fabio Di Certo (IT) "On Knowledge, Technology and Society" | ESSAY |
7. Pedro A. Cardoso de Oliveira (PO) "Aesthetics, Ethics and Technique - A model built upon Druckers knowledge society theory" | ESSAY |
8. Olivia Osmond (UK) "Employing and Adapting Drucker’s Key Lessons for the Digital Wonderland of Tomorrow" | ESSAY |
9. Chipo N. Ngongoni (ZW) "Re-Thinking Bits and Bytes" | ESSAY |
10. Sushanth Bhushan (IN) "How Deep the Robot-Hole Goes" | ESSAY |
10. Joel Modestus (IN) "Having the whole world and Keeping our soul" | ESSAY |
4. Zofia Baranska (PL) "Future belongs to travelers" | ESSAY |
5. Wolfgang Sieberth (AT) "Cyberspace: A New Banana?" | ESSAY |
6. Shrey Goyal (IN) "Virtual vs. Reality: The Computer as a Companion" | ESSAY |
7. Yavnika Khanna (IN) "Navigating the New Frontiers of the Great Transformation" | ESSAY |
8. Nathaniel Manaloto (PH) "Digicraft: Art and Science of Managing Creative Destruction" | ESSAY |
9. Piotr Hrebieniuk (PL) "Genuineness as an adaptation strategy for organizations" | ESSAY |
10. Siddharth Wadehra (PH) "A Canvas for Tomorrow’s Intellectual Global Village" | ESSAY |
10. J. Meyer Andersen (DK) "Lost in Digital Wonderland - Finding opportunities for reflection in the digital age" | ESSAY |
Deepa Prahalad (US)
Author "Predictable Magic"
and Business Strategist
Elizabeth Edersheim
Creator of ThEME,
Author "The Definite Drucker"