About a month ago I wrote a column here called "The Transformation Decade". It prompted comments and numerous emails and took off on Twitter and the blogosphere. That prompted me to make it a video. Let's go to the video tape!
As a futurist, particularly since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, I have been called upon to make forecasts. In the first week of January, I gave my economic forecast for 2010 about this "recovery that won't feel like a recovery". Let's go to the video tape!
Those of you in the entertainment business have all probably spoken the clichéd truism that "content is king" in the past decade or two. Well, while that is true, it is most definitely an Information Age phrase. In the Shift Age, "context is king." Let's go to the video tape!
Thanks for the phrase Warner. And of course, for this Transformation Decade, the good old chestnut from Bob Dylan is most appropriate: "Those not busy being born are busy dying." Of course any one of his phrases prompts another to pop into mind: "The times they are a'changin'"
David Houle is a futurist, strategist and speaker. He has always been slightly ahead the curve. Houle spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment. David can be contacted at David@DavidHoule.com.
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