The Transformation Decade
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In the next 10 years, there will be a level of transformation nearly unmatched in human history:
It may feel uncomfortable as familiar things and ways of living are disintegrating. Transformation, to varying degrees, is uncomfortable and disruptive. We are and will be transformed in the next 10 years.
We have entered the Transformation Decade.
Watch David's short YouTube video about the Transformation Decade.
David Houle is an award-winning futurist and strategist who has launched successful brands and is an in-demand speaker about the future. He writes the popular futurist blog Evolution Shift and lives his life slightly ahead of the curve.
- Humanity's relationship to communication technology is rapidly changing and will bring ongoing social, cultural and economic transformation. We all feel this, as it has already begun.
- Media such as television, newspapers, magazines and radio will be completely different than they are today. We are only at the initial creative destruction phase of media.
- Economic metrics will need to be transformed both on national and global levels. Such economic measurements as GDP (gross national product) will need to be updated to better reflect our 21st-century economy and not the 20th-century economy in which they were created. We will need to think of the global money supply, not just the U.S. money supply as we are moving ever more toward a global economy.
- Relationships are transforming both inside and outside the family. Most of us are feeling this already.
- Energy and energy use will be completely transformed. Alternative and renewable energy development will create great new wealth and transform landscapes and how we live every day.
- Education is no longer serving the needs of people and society; it will be transformed. K–12 education will change within the next 10 years. For a large part of the population, it will become K–14, not K–16, as the value of a two-year degree from a community college will be of greater value to educate and train people for the new types of jobs that will exist in the future.
- The medical breakthroughs around the corner will make 2010 to 2020 the most transformative decade in medical history. It won't just be the actual discoveries, but the moral decisions they will force us to confront for the first time in human history. We will all have the affordable ability to know our unique complete genetic map. As a result, we will move into the age of personalized medicine. We will have foreknowledge of probable personal health conditions. How will that transform how you live? Do you get married if you and your intended partner's respective genetic maps are not a good match? Does knowledge trump love?
- The 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 and creative. More of us will work from home and places other than the office than ever before.
- The Internet and our rapid-fire use of mobile digital devices has created a pulsing, synaptic place of unprecedented interactivity. On a global scale, it 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 10 to 20 years (neurosphere as in the collective knowledge, information, culture, history and economic transactions that now occur and reside in cyberspace). That would be an evolutionary level of transformation—nothing less than an evolution shift. We are rapidly moving in that direction.
It may feel uncomfortable as familiar things and ways of living are disintegrating. Transformation, to varying degrees, is uncomfortable and disruptive. We are and will be transformed in the next 10 years.
We have entered the Transformation Decade.
Watch David's short YouTube video about the Transformation Decade.
David Houle is an award-winning futurist and strategist who has launched successful brands and is an in-demand speaker about the future. He writes the popular futurist blog Evolution Shift and lives his life slightly ahead of the curve.
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