Do we have 2020 Vision?
Do we have 2020 vision? Moving into this new decade encourages us to take a long term perspective. We have been around 13.7 billion years and expressed in 24 hour chronological time, we humans only show up at 22:30 and the whole of recorded history happens in the last 10 seconds before the chimes of Big Ben at midnight! No wonder then that we may be reeling with the pace of change; or is it just me? Thomas Friedman thinks not: he implies technological change is outpacing our ability to adapt to it. The technological supernova is charging ahead and we lack the cognitive (let alone the social or emotional) capacity to keep up. If the pace of technological change (expressed in terms of the development of Intel processors since 1971) were applied to a VW Beetle, it would be hurtling around at 300,000 miles per hour and we’d be getting 2 million miles per gallon of petrol. It would cost US 4 cents. So what are the...