There are over four billion existing internet users in 2021, but another three billion have yet to join the digital population, often through illiteracy. The economic power of access to digital communications has been proven over and over in Africa and Asia. Farmers and fishermen find the market with the best price for their goods,…
The Blockchain will revive with the second generation of the technology. In the long term, it can be expected to pervade the fabric of society.
Prediction: By 2030, management will be considered a skill and not a job description. Prediction: By 2025, 50% of people who can work remotely will, rising to 85% by 2030. There’s more to life than work COVID changed us in many ways. One of the salient shifts is that work no longer holds the central place in…
There was a time when technology hype was only instigated by marketing departments at vendor companies. Today it builds up already in scientific journals.
With Covid cases on the decline, many organizations are planning to bring remote workers back into the workplace. CEOs are well-advised to demonstrate empathy as employees make their return-to-work journeys. C-suite should improve employee work-life flexibility and wellness playbook. These four key actions will address and rightsize employee work-life and work-family balance now.
Bitcoin is junk by now but deserves the honor of arms for showing us the powers of the blockchain. Which in turn is biting the dust behind a myriad of pseudo contenders.
I reject the prophecy of a post-Covid society locked up in small-town homes watching the world via Zoom. I hope the effect will only persist for another couple of years, then evaporate.
Beyond what it is already doing, with a little more audacity Machine Learning could help us decipher the mysterious COVID-19 crisis and fight its successors.
Today’s pandemic is a humanitarian and economic disaster but if this were 2005, the economic ruin would be much worse. This summer, despite the pandemic, tens of millions of white-collar workers were not laid off. Their jobs were saved by broadband access, Bring Your Own (BYO) and major executive attitude changes. In the face of…
Starting in 2021, pandemic abandoned office space will be repurposed to indoor farming and food production. The pandemic has had a significant impact on commercial building usage. Shuttered businesses, reduced workforces, working from home have emptied office spaces, especially in cities. It’s very likely that much of that space will not be refilled when the…
