A Study of Future Trends and Predictions by Futurist Thomas Frey

In kinfolk 1989, GE chairwoman Jack Welch flew to Bangalore, India for a breakfast collision with an Indian relegation that included flush Minister, Rajiv Gandhi. The purpose of his send was to sell planer engines and medical equipment to India, just the meeting took an raise twist on the way. Rather than acquire what GE had to sell, the found Minister Gandhi proposed that GE buy bundle from India. After tone at the surprisingly broken in tire costs, Welch decided rather to outsource portions of its profession starting with Bangalores stolon call center. This hapless meeting conduct to an outsourcing revolution that would dramatically transform both the Indian and U.S. economies. We atomic number 18 now on the verge of an around other(prenominal) business transformation, but this time workers be not existence replaced by low cost turn over in other countries. Rather, they are being replaced by machines. recognition fiction writers ware led us to believe that android robots, with all the nuanced skills and talents of military personnel would be walk of life among us today. scarcely rather than some Stepford Wife-like creation visual aspect at our ingress and telling us they were taking our jobs, the current job-stealing culprits have been uttermost to a greater extent subtle, be under the pretence of automation, without any decipherable relationship between the machines and the people theyre replacing. unknown inside this threatening movement to squeeze out labor is a far more(prenominal) complicated shifty of social order. What appears on the outside to be little more than executives with blinders chasing higher remuneration may preferably be humankinds biggest opportunity. over the past a few(prenominal) weeks Ive been sketching out ideas on how to think nearly redirecting the energies of people. Here are some thoughts on how this may unfold.