Edward Lindaman notes that if you don't look far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your present will be impoverished. The document then discusses six converging forces that will shape the future: an aging population, accelerating technology, globalization, declining cheap energy, sustainability challenges, and growing income inequality. It argues we must envision a bold, ambitious future and work to achieve it, rather than having our future determined by low aims. The future depends on the actions we take now to guide our progress.

2. what is your image
of the future?

3. If you don t go far enough
back in memory or far enough
ahead in hope, your present
will be impoverished.
Edward Lindaman

4. There is one rule for the industrialist and that
is: Make the best quality of goods possible at
the lowest cost possible, paying the highest

6. not a mystery

7. ahead in hope: lessons from the future
six converging forces
• old and young
• technology acceleration
• globe races ahead
• century of easy cheap
energy winds down
• sustainability broadly
defined
• income gap economics

10. cceleration

11. nanotechnology | biotech

12. Americas
EU-CIS
Asia
$2T
$5.5T
$4T
Americas
14% World
China, India, J
Population
EU, CIS, M.E., Africa
SE Asia, Aust
33% World
53% Worl
Population
Populatio

13. ext gen fossil fuels
ars
ower plants
uildings and appliances

14. sustainability:
challenge of food security
• global population growth from 7
billion to ~ 9 billion means....
• in the next 40 years we have to
produce as much food as we used
to produce over centuries
• requires 21st Century agriculture

15. income gap economics

16. knowledge value economy
it s what a
product or
service - or
person kno

17. knowledge value needs…..knowledge
must find new and better ways to provide
high-quality learning to millions of
additional students between now and 202

18. what is your image
of the future?

19. e greater danger
r most of us is
t that our aim is
o high and we
ss it, but that it
too low and we
ach it.
Michelangelo

20. the future is
something we
future is not
mething that
happens to us

21. ank you for your time
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