Don Tapscott: Anybody that thinks we come out of this recession and get back to business as usual is deeply mistaken

Don Tapscott (whose voice eerily reminds me of Marshall McLuhan) is one of my favorite writers and thinkers. As part of the really cool 'Penny for your Thoughts'(PFYT) series, the FreedomLab people have just  published a great video with Don's comments on what's really happening in this economic crisis - the headline is "Re-Industrialize the Planet". A quick summary:

• The web is creating a global infrastructure for collaboration (which leads to disruption and confusion)
• As a result, all of our institutions have come to the end of their life-cycle
• The current recession is a crucial punctuation point in human history - the point where we said that we need to reset, the point where the industrial economy has finally run out of gas
• This paradigm shift is creating a crisis of leadership
• The Digital Natives are inheriting this situation - and they think very differently
• Kids are now the authority on many issues
• We have 40 years to re-industrialize the planet

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Comments

[Bas]

Wow! Thanks for sharing this Gerd! He actually reminds me a bit of the late psychedelic philosopher Terrence McKenna. I'm not sure why. But also of Marshall McLuhan, you're right. :-)