A New Book - A New Publishing Model - A New Book – "Entering the Shift Age"

quotEntering the Shift Agequot is a deep look into the new age we are now in Five years ago when quotThe Shift Agequot was published I wrote that humanity was about to enter a new age In brief terms I described why and wrote about the Three Forces of the Shift Age In addition the book was a collection of the best columns from this blog The goal of that book was to announce this new age and to prepare readers for the incredible changes this new age would bringFive years later it is clear that we are now fully in the Shift Age In this time the Three Forces of the Shift Age have shown their redefining power and many of the forecasts written have proven true Think of all that has happened since late 2007 Think about what was going on at that time what you were thinking how you communicated how you looked at work your profession the global economy your investments how you communicated and consumed media Think of the technology you thought was cutting edge in 2007 Compare that to how you view all these subjects todayIn 2007 I said that humanity would be entering a fiveyear long reorganizational recession Reorganizational as it was the recession between the end of the Information Age and its underlying constructs and the beginning of the Shift Age and the new dynamics now here or coming into view CEOs all over the world have told me that was the first and best context for them to more fully understand why so much of the quotgreat recessionquot or the quotglobal financial crisisquot was unprecedented and hard to navigate Old models no longer worked Old ways of thinking went out the window We weren39t in Kansas let alone the Information Age any longerquotEntering the Shift Agequot is an explanation of this new age a guide to how to navigate it a directional map to what lies ahead and a path to new ways of thinking and looking at the worldIn Parts One and Two I revisit update and deepen the look at why we are in this new age A fresh look at the Three Forces of the Shift Age confirms not only their power but how deeply they have changed the world The massive changes they have initiated have gone beyond even some of the forecasts and predictions made five years agoIn Part Three I look deeply into the Transformation Decade 20102020 a topic familiar to long time readers of this blog and to audiences around the world It is in this decade that legacy thought is falling away change has become environmental and new trends and dynamics are becoming clear I look at some of the emerging trends that are in rapid development and whyIn Part Four I set forth the Five Contexts of the Shift Age As I have said and written many times in the Shift Age quotcontext is kingquot We live in an ever more contextual world These five contexts will be the largest ones that increasingly will be shaping our thinking in the next several decades Then for the rest of Part Four I take a specific look into the future of numerous areas of humanity Shift Age generations the ascendency of women education energy technology health and medicine big data IP and power being a partial list Due to the new and unique way quotEntering the Shift Agequot is being published see below as a reader you can sample any subject of Part Four that is of interest to youquotEntering the Shift Agequot is my best book about all aspects of our collective future If you would like to learn more about the book and possibly order it please go here for a video and more information The publish date for the book is 1113 but you can go to the landing page to preorder now In addition you can sample any part of the book in miniEbook form See belowA New Publishing ModelAs a futurist I was conflicted five years ago when wanting to have a book published I knew at the time amp8211 prekindle that this content distribution system called book publishing was about to be transformed and to some degree digitally disintermediated Now 5 years later I am able to publish quotEntering the Shift Agequot in a new model a publishing model that I think will be one of the successful models for the future of book publishing The publisher is Sourcebooks and they share my vision to redefine at least with this model a different way to publish a book The Agile Publishing Model is unique participatory provides partial purchase of content and brings my book to market faster than most traditional models something certainly important to a futuristA number of you participated in the first stage which was to provide feedback to me for each of the four parts of the book The second stage which is now is the publishing of 12 miniEbooks that will all be published before the full book is available 1113 This will allow anyone to start reading the book right away to immediately read the parts of the future that interest them or just inexpensively sample the book before choosing to purchaseI will be writing here about each of these miniEbooks during the next few weeksAgain here is the page with more information about quotEntering the Shift AgequotDavid Houle is a futurist strategist and speaker He has always been slightly ahead of the curve Houle spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment Most recently David is a featured contributor to Oprahcom Check is out here wwwoprahcomdavidhoule David can be contacted at DavidDavidHoulecomRead all Davidamp8217s MediaBizBloggers commentaries at Evolution ShiftCheck us out on Facebook at MediaBizBloggerscomFollow our Twitter updates MediaBizBloggerThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaBizBloggerscom management or associated bloggers MediaBizBloggers is an open thought leadership platform and readers may share their comments and opinions in response to all commentaries

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