Speakers Don Tapscott: Futurist
Don Tapscott can see the future coming ... and works to identify the new concepts we need to understand in a world transformed by the Internet.
Why you should listen to him:
Don Tapscott takes a farseeing look at our digital, connected, hypercollaborative world. He's the chair of Moxie Insight and has written 14 books about aspects of this new world, helping readers understand where the world is heading as our civilization fundamentally reshapes itself. In 1995, his book The Digital Economy was among the first to show how the internet would change the way we did business; in 2000, he defined the Net Generation and the “digital divide” in Growing Up Digital.
In his most recent works, he thinks deeply about newly possible collaboration "on an astronomical scale." As the Industrial Age comes to an end, all our institutions are challenged (state, corporations, schools), he argues--and suggests that we need to reboot and reinvent civilization.
"The Macrowikinomics assertion that 'there has never been a more exciting time to be human' is spot on."Michael Dell
Quotes by Don Tapscott
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“You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.”
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“To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.”
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“These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology … sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.”
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“Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked … fitness is no longer optional. If you're going to be naked, you better get buff.”
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“Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.”
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“When I noticed how my own children were effortlessly able to use all this sophisticated technology, at first I thought, ‘My children are prodigies!’ But then I noticed all their friends were like them, so that was a bad theory.”
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Don Tapscott: Four principles for the open world
- 17:50 Posted: Jun 2012
Don Tapscott on the Web
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Conferences
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- TEDGlobal 2012