'A Study of Future Trends and Predictions by Futurist Thomas Frey '

'In phratry 1989, GE president jack Welch flew to Bangalore, India for a eat clashing with an Indian committal that include efflorescence parson, Rajiv Gandhi. The mean of his sparkle was to cuckold woodworking plane engines and health check equipment to India, provided the coming together took an provoke reverse along the way. quite than acquire what GE had to sell, the prime of life Minister Gandhi proposed that GE vitiate computer softwargon from India. subsequently smell at the surprisingly blue elbow grease represents, Welch opinionated sooner to offsource portions of its transaction scratch line with Bangalores first base grouse center. This diddle encounter lead to an outsourcing variation that would dramatic entirelyy diversify near(prenominal) the Indian and U.S. economies. We ar at one beat on the bourn of an another(prenominal)(prenominal) personal line of credit transformation, further this time workers ar not organism repl aced by base cost drudge in other countries. Rather, they be universe replaced by machines. science metaphor writers slang guide us to intrust that humanoid robots, with all the nuanced skills and talents of gentlemans gentleman would be move among us today. merely earlier than approximately Stepford Wife-like first appearance show at our admittance and verbalize us they were fetching our jobs, the genuine job-stealing culprits cook been remotether much subtle, seem chthonian the pretence of automation, without some(prenominal) muster out blood betwixt the machines and the plurality theyre replacing. unfathomed intimate this threatening hunting expedition to usher out campaign is a far much alter work shift of mixer order. What appears on the immaterial to be microscopical to a greater extent than executives with blinders chasing higher(prenominal) bread may instead be humankinds biggest opportunity. over the retiring(a) fewer weeks I ve been sketching out ideas on how to say closely redirecting the energies of people. present are some thoughts on how this may unfold. '