Tag: 2020

I’m speaking at the Ovations Speaker Showcase next week on the Twenty Trends for 2020. A big ask for twenty minutes.

Despite the time limits, it’s doable. Here’s the list of trends I think are going to define the rest of this decade, along with some  related links.

1. Accelerated rate of business
   • The year 2020, Explained by Wired Magazine
2. China moving up the value chain
   • The Economist on Growth and China
3. Dealing with a society at retirement age
4. Rising incomes in South Asia and Africa
5. Robotics and Automation
   • Better than human – Kevin Kelly
   • Will a robot take your job? – Gary Marcus
   • Robots and robber barons – Paul Krugman
   • Myth of the jobless recovery – Matt Yglesias
   • The end of labor – Timothy Noah
6. The internet of machines
   • Every new car will be connected to the Internet by 2014
   • Internet of things: Should you worry if your jeans go smart?
   • Is wearable tech the next big trend?
7. Reinventing entertainment
8. The fall and rise of social media
9. The continued rise of the DIY economy
10. Newspapers cease to exist
    • Newspaper Extinction Timeline – Ross Dawson
11. 3D printing
    • Rethinking objects and form are key to 3D printing revolution
    • How crowdsourcing and 3D printer gave a little boy a set of fingers
12. nano-technology
13. The new education revolution
14. Reskilling the workforce
15. Older workers re-entering the workforce
16. The fight for control of the mobile payments system
17. Mobile apps redefining service industries
18. Taming the Big Data tsunami
19. The fight for data rights
20. Flatter organisations
    • The Future of The Enterprise – Marc Andreesen
21. The great deleveraging
    • Walmart worries that customers are broke
    • A History of Australian Property Prices

Apart from the fact there’s 21, the twenty minutes I have allocated isn’t going to be enough to cover these. So which topics do I skate over?

Of course there might be more topics that I’ve missed. I’m open to suggestions.