The Economic Black Hole, The Coming Tech Tidal Wave, and Homo Evolutis

 This is one of the most remarkable presentations I have ever seen.  Academic futurist Juan Enriquez tackles the Economy and the Massive coming effects of the Information Age in a short 18 minutes.  Don’t bother to watch this if you are one of those rabid pessimists who believe that only pessimistic thought is profound.  You are wrong.  It is quite as possible to be very wrong by being too pessimistic as it is by being too naive and optimistic. In the real world a Futurist must find a way to integrate MASSIVELY across mutiple trends and counter trends all in motion forward at the same time.  (and NO I haven’t a clue why there is a silly lizard as the start pic, it wasn’t there on TED.)

Ok, I will let you catch your breath…

 Enriquez makes two major points here.  The First is that we are in for some real economic trouble, and the Second is that this will be dwarfed by yet-to-come effects  from  the next surge of the Information Age.  This combination of issues will be the major focus of my work here at waynekey.com.

 Enriquez also makes a hidden point.  This point is that we as a species will take advantage of Info Tech, Bio Tech and Nano Tech to lengthen our lives and to improve ourselves.   All the debate and power-jockying in the world will not change this built-in and utterly human drive.  That we will is a “fait accompli.”  The what and the when and the how are still very much up in the air.  A future history of this century will show that this is one of the very most important issues of our era.