Carole Marsh says...The Future is So Yesterday!
Duh? Huh? Oh, yeah, folks, believe me! The future is so yesterday. When did this happen? I suppose when we weren't looking. At the turn of the century, we had a clue that the future AKA the Twenty-first Century was coming, but we are already past the first decade of that event boundary.
No, today there is a mechanical heart that whirrrrrrrs blood through your veins via spinning blades—no motor, and, no heartbeat required! Books have given way to eBibles, ecomics, and e-everything else. New planets the size and approximate atmosphere of Earth are being discovered. Dreaded cancer IS curable in many instances. And more, so much more.
This all is on my mind because I run a business. Last year I described employees (mine and others) as being either Old-Fashions or Newfangles. The differences were clear. This year I feel the import of such distinctions even more clearly. You are either part of the past, or, as Buzz Lightyear might say, "To infinity and beyond."
I can tell that the future has already come and gone because so many Newfangles now start up businesses with no baggage of the past. They enter the economic fray already up to speed, and indeed, beyond, taking everything to the next new new level.
I have always been a futurist, in spite of the fact that I live a big chunk of my life in the past in my involvement with social studies. But nothing about how that history curriculum now gets done has anything to do with the past. Today you either work at the speed of light or get left behind. I have a hard time selling that concept.
My job is to create, and often those creations have no name. That hinders me not and should not hinder or stymie those charged with helping me. So don't be an Old -Fashion, be a Newfangle. We don't want to eat our competitors' edust, do we?
Yes, the future is so yesterday. I'm not sure what we're in now, but as Betty Davis once said in a movie, "It's gonna be a bumpy ride."
Duh? Huh? Oh, yeah, folks, believe me! The future is so yesterday. When did this happen? I suppose when we weren't looking. At the turn of the century, we had a clue that the future AKA the Twenty-first Century was coming, but we are already past the first decade of that event boundary.
No, today there is a mechanical heart that whirrrrrrrs blood through your veins via spinning blades—no motor, and, no heartbeat required! Books have given way to eBibles, ecomics, and e-everything else. New planets the size and approximate atmosphere of Earth are being discovered. Dreaded cancer IS curable in many instances. And more, so much more.
This all is on my mind because I run a business. Last year I described employees (mine and others) as being either Old-Fashions or Newfangles. The differences were clear. This year I feel the import of such distinctions even more clearly. You are either part of the past, or, as Buzz Lightyear might say, "To infinity and beyond."
I can tell that the future has already come and gone because so many Newfangles now start up businesses with no baggage of the past. They enter the economic fray already up to speed, and indeed, beyond, taking everything to the next new new level.
I have always been a futurist, in spite of the fact that I live a big chunk of my life in the past in my involvement with social studies. But nothing about how that history curriculum now gets done has anything to do with the past. Today you either work at the speed of light or get left behind. I have a hard time selling that concept.
My job is to create, and often those creations have no name. That hinders me not and should not hinder or stymie those charged with helping me. So don't be an Old -Fashion, be a Newfangle. We don't want to eat our competitors' edust, do we?
Yes, the future is so yesterday. I'm not sure what we're in now, but as Betty Davis once said in a movie, "It's gonna be a bumpy ride."
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