The forces transforming tomorrow are profound, powerful, and accelerating. The Internet, social networks, crowd-sourcing, gaming dynamics, new information and communication technologies, robotics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology are all converging to transform everything from agriculture, energy, education, and law enforcement to health care, manufacturing, retail, and transportation.
In Foresight 20/20, professional futurists and business forecasters Jack Uldrich and Simon Anderson have developed eleven scenarios designed to aid the reader in understanding how a variety of technological trends are transforming the world of tomorrow. The trends are exciting and scary, positive and negative, prosaic and profound, and will impact both one's personal and professional life. As Cervantes said centuries ago, ''Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.'' Foresight 20/20 goes one step further and not only prepares the reader for victory but also instills the confidence necessary to create tomorrow's victories.
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In Higher Unlearning, best-selling author, global futurist and the iconoclastic Chief Unlearning Officer, Jack Uldrich turns the world as you know it or think you know it on its head and makes the compelling case that unlearning will be the most critical skill for conquering the brave, new world of the 21st century.
You will uncover the following gems:
• What you do know is more likely to kill you than what you don't know.
• Playing it safe is the riskiest thing you can do.
• Imperfection trumps perfection.
• You must bite the hand that feeds you.
• Failure is the key to success.
• Following the money can cause you to lose money.
• Zoning out is preferable to zoning in.
• Ignorance lies at the heart of wisdom.
After reading Higher Unlearning and digesting its 39 pearls of wisdom, you will not only possess a clearer view of the world, you will strip away years of well-intentioned but misguided conventional wisdom that was hindering rather than helping you achieve a successful future.
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