My work focuses on the processes of change and it is also about the future. Because this epochal change configures a future very different from everything we know.
Although we will face old challenges (such as inequality, poverty, violence, etc.), a dominant force for our future will be new problems (water scarcity, the transit to a new energy matrix, degradation of the biosphere, etic conflicts presented by new technological developments applied to improve living conditions and expand lifespan etc.), some of which we do not even imagine will be there, waiting for us. We will face new demographic forces, new demands for the production of goods and services, new business models and a new dynamics in the job market.
For the first time, people over 60 reach 14% of the world population, although 43% of the world’s inhabitants are under 25 years old. The jobs most in demand in recent years (for example, related to the handling of social network traffic and others) did not exist six or seven years ago and a new generation of service companies arises through the web (recruiting, for example , in a few years half a million people who work when they decide it in more than a hundred different countries).
For this reason, my work also focuses on finding the solutions that this future of change demands of us. We cannot go through the 21st century with the manuals of the 20th.
These solutions will not come from enlightened messianic leaderships but through institutions. In the 21st century – as information technology shows – the protagonist is the people. The consumer, the worker, the citizen.
Can we take advantage of new technologies to strengthen this process and start to work right today the solutions that a future full of changes demands?
