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The Gig Economy: License to Exploit

The Gig Economy: License to Exploit

Frederick Taylor has a lot to answer for. The father of “efficiency management”, Taylor made a name for himself in the early twentieth…
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The End of White Collar Jobs

The End of White Collar Jobs

There have been a great number of articles of late talking about how manual factory labor will be going away in the relentless march of…
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The Coming Demographic Depression

The Coming Demographic Depression

Robots are coming, immigrants are taking over our jobs, outsourcing, lazy Millennials — the number of factors being blamed for the current…
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Future Proof Digest 20180401

Future Proof Digest 20180401

This is a weekly article that highlights technological and social trends that will likely have significant impact upon the world over the…
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Retail Death in the Fourth Industrial Age

Retail Death in the Fourth Industrial Age

A disturbing set of images, showing dead and dying malls, were shown in an article run this week on Business Insider .
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Future Proof Digest 20170325

Future Proof Digest 20170325

Well, first issue (last week) did astonishingly well, so once again, it’s the News From the Future. This highlights a few of the bigger…
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Future Proof Digest 20170318

Future Proof Digest 20170318

Every week I will be collecting together links from various sources that I think may be useful or interesting to readers.
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Surviving the 4th Industrial Era

Surviving the 4th Industrial Era

This is a long essay, for which I make no apologies — it’s the culmination of a lot of thought about where we are likely going. The tl:dr —…
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Ten Megatrends for the Twenty First Century

Ten Megatrends for the Twenty First Century

Recently, I wrote a tribute to the late Futurist Alvin Toffler, who passed away last week at age 87. In many respects, he is considered the…
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Tech Forecast 2017

Tech Forecast 2017

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