... culture to the workplace, and a new spirit of global awareness to the marketplace.
He'll explain how to look toward youth culture and see the contours of a new future for the planet. ...
conference once a year where participants discuss foresight techniques and global trends that are influencing the future. ...
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Mr. Tapscott's earlier books include Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (with Anthony D. Williams) (McGraw-Hill, 2006),
The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence (McGraw-Hill, 1996), and
Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation (McGraw-Hill, 1998), to which his newest book is a sequel.
This interview was conducted by Aaron M. Cohen on behalf of World Future Review.
WFR: Any idea what the generation after the Net Generation is going to be like?
Tapscott: Well, one of the biggest ideas in Grown Up Digital is that because these kids have grown up spending their time differently, especially during adolescence from the ages of eight to eighteen, a critical period of brain development, they actually have different brains.
Boomers have watched TV for 24 hours a week and that creates a certain kind of brain. And these kids have spent that amount of time interacting, collaborating, composing their thoughts, scrutinizing, authenticating, organizing information, having to remember things.
And this creates multitasking, and this creates a different kind of brain. So the actual deep structure and synaptic connections in the brain are different for an entire generation. Which, by the way, explains why this is not simply a life stage difference. It’s a true generational difference.
So, what will be the impact of the next generation—the kids who are twelve and under, who are truly bathed in bits, immersed in digital technologies and in the interactive and collaborative way of accessing information? … all I can say is that I think they’re going to be a lot like the Net Geners—even more so—but we’re in the early days of really understanding that.
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an introduction to the field to advanced strategies in foresight, planning, and futures building. U.S. STATES SCRAMBLE TO BALANCE ...
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... Benefits of Recession-Proofing Strategies * Alaska Youth Success Stories * Antarctica’s Accelerated Warming * Click of the ...
the Society’s professional “Journal of Strategic Foresight.” This exciting first issue features an interview with 2009 ...
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... MOBILIZING THE MILLENNIALS A foundation to promote youth philanthropy, an interactive game to promote financial literacy, ...
bid is $60,000). NEWS FOR THE FUTURIST COMMUNITY * FORESIGHT 2010: The Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and Artificial General ...
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... volunteers interested in exploring new ways to make foresight useful to communities such as youth.
The committee specifically seeks committed individuals with experience ...
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... exciting projects in recent years, including a Global Youth Foresight Program,
a revamped Professional Membership program with its new ...
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... Steinmueller, scientific director of Z_punkt Gmbh, The Foresight Company. So a worker would earn the same money in Australia, Sweden, ...
of extremism, and the government also supports other youth activities, including organized sports and athletic events. Such ...
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... spirituality, body hacking, aging boomers, digital youth, and culture wars. This session will also recap three decades ...
Jay Gary, assistant professor and director, Strategic Foresight, Regent University; member, Association of Professional Futurists, ...
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