Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends That Will Transform Your World

Game-changing trends are coming in business, technology, workforce, economy, security, and environment. Climate change, energy demand, and population growth will redefine global risk and power. Exponential new technologies will emerge in digital money, mobile commerce, and big data. An explosive new middle class of over one billion consumers will enter the marketplace. Every nation, job, business, and person will be transformed. To thrive in this future you have to become predictive, adaptive, and agileto become Future Smart. Dr. James Canton, a renowned global futurist and visionary business advisor, illuminates the pivotal forces and global power shifts that everyone must understand today to thrive in a rapidly changing landscapeRegenerative medicine will extend our lifetimes and rebuild our bodiesRobots and drones will drive our cars, teach our kids, and fight our warsSmart machines will design, manage, and service 40 of all global businessesenergy, commerce, finance, and manufacturingwithout humansDigital consumers who live always connected will challenge every business to change its strategyClimate change wars will redefine security and resources Most of us are not prepared to meet the challenges the future will bring, but these changes are coming fast.