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Top blog posts of 2009: The future

Ross Dawson, December 28, 2009 3:39 AM US PT

Other 2009 summary posts
Top blog posts of 2009: 6 on Twitter and the media
Top blog posts of 2009: Enterprise 2.0 and organizational effectiveness
Top keynote speech presentations/ videos of 2009

Third in my series of my blog posts that have attracted the most interest this year, on the general topic of the future. (I haven't included any of my presentations - I'll select some of these to put in another post.)

1. Wealth Adaptation Syndrome (WAS): a defining malaise of our times and the opportunities that stem from it
A syndrome to help understand society in 2009

2. Why traditional conferences are dying and how unconferences and audience participation are the future of events
Why events will always be important but they are starting to look very different from before

3. The future of museums: the shift from expert curators to facilitators of participation
How museums and libraries are fundamentally shifting their role

4. Six key insights into the future of the Direct Selling Industry
What I learned about where the direct selling industry is going

5. What will Australian consumers pay for 100Mbps with the NBN?
Thoughts behind an interview on SBS World News on the National Broadband Network

6. The MegaTrends of Technology, Business, and Society
A distillation of key trends

7. Interview on the global and Middle East economy
Perspectives on what is driving the global economy and in particular the Gulf region

8. Gerontocracy is our future
Why the elderly will rule

9. The best visuals to explain the Singularity to senior executives
How to communicate to businesspeople that the future may be very surprising indeed

10. The World in 2030: Four scenarios for long-term planning and strategy
Overview of scenarios for the world in 2030

11. Futurist proved correct! …and today describes the extraordinary social technologies of 2016
Predictions on where social technologies are going

12. The Future of Sales is Social (the rise of social CRM)
Why sales is rapidly becoming driven by social technologies

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1 Comments

Rinnell Garrett said:

Great posts for 2009. I have to follow these all. I hope you have a great blogging year 2010.

January 9, 2010 9:42 PM

Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies, future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network, leading events firm The Insight Exchange, and influence ratings start-up Repyoot.

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0, the prescient Living Networks, which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.