The Transformation Decade

Don39t those definitions feel like what has been already going on in your life and the world Many of us have already been living in this state Many of us have only recently felt the impending alterations disruptions and reorganizations that have begun Everything seems to be in a transforming state of shiftWe are entering the first full decade of the Shift Age even though it has already taken root in the last 4 years This new age has launched incredible shift and upheaval already This current Great Recession can only be fully understood when seen as the reorganizational recession between two ages the Information Age and the Shift Age It is not unlike the recessions of the 1970s which was the decade of transition between the Industrial and Information Ages Almost everything is in a state of shift in a state of being transformedThink about all that is going on in your life and in the world The way we communicate has and will continue to change in form appearance our gadgets are vastly different that even five years ago and character how many of you text or tweet regularly versus even three years ago The shape of our relationships is changing The shape of how we work how we live and how and in what we travel are all changing The economy and the workplace are changing and being reshapedIn the next ten years there will be a level of transformation probably unmatched in human history Humanity39s relationship to communication technology is rapidly changing and will bring ongoing transformation socially culturally and economically Media will be completely different that it is today We are only at the initial creative destruction phase of it now Economic metrics will need to be transformed both on national and global levels How countries define defense will be transformed given the shape changing nature of our enemies and the threats that face us Energy and energy use will be transformed from the 20th century ways we look at it and use it still today Alternative and renewable energy development and use will create great new wealth and will transform landscapes and how we live Education is no longer serving the needs of people and society it will be transformed K12 education will be dramatically transformed in the next ten years For a large part of the population it will become K14 The medical breakthroughs around the corner will make 20102020 the most transformative decade in medical history This is not just due to the actualdiscoveries but to what they will make us face and the moral decisions we will confront for the first time We will all have the affordable ability to know our unique complete genetic map We will move into the age of personalized medicine as a result We will have fore knowledge of probable personal health conditions in the future That will transform how we live The concept of preexisting conditions will largely go away as we were born with them genetically Do you get married if you and your intended partner39s respective genetic maps are not a good match Does knowledge trump love Who gets to make the decision as to who gets to live forever in an over crowded world We will have the capability to make such decisions How do we develop the ability to do so There will be transformation across the board in health care and medicineWe will undergo personal transformation as well Our consciousness will change in dynamic ways Our relationships our work place our view of life and even the definition of life itself will be transformedThe workplace will be transformed as the place part becomes less and less relevant Human beings will only need to be in the same place to collaborate as work is increasingly defined as collaborative The Internet and our rapid fire use of mobile digital devices to access it has created a pulsing synaptic place of unprecedented interactivity that on a global scale is starting to feel like a global brain It is a live morphing place called the Neurosphere that is not only transforming us now but could well be the technological model for a new level of human consciousness in 1020 years That is an evolutionary level of transformation An Evolutionshift It may be hard for you to envision but we are rapidly moving in that directionThe list could go on and on as to what will be transformed Take a snapshot look at your life now with all your relationships ways of thinking ways of living and ways of looking at the world I promise you that when you take the same snapshot in ten years you will astounded as to the transformation that will have occurred The speed of change is now both constantly accelerating and environmental It may feel uncomfortable as familiar things and ways of living are disintegrating Transformation to varying degrees is always uncomfortable We are and will be transformed in the next ten yearsWe have entered the Transformation DecadeDavid 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 DavidDavidHoulecomRead all Davidamp8217s MediaBizBloggers commentaries at David Houle MediaBizBloggersFollow our Twitter updates MediaBizBlogger

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