Absolutely, it is good food for thought. Everyone should be constantly analyzing where they think the future is going when they adjust their course into the future.
When I was in college professors were enamored with “Megatrends” by Naisbitt. So I bought it and read it. It helped influence my decision to stay in technology throughout my career as my theory was it would grow stronger over time (it has).
Now might be a good time to reflect on how accurate Naisbitt’s predictions were. They were:
(1) Becoming an information society after having been an industrial one
(2) From technology being forced into use, to technology being pulled into use where it is appealing to people
(3) From a predominantly national economy to one in the global marketplace
(4) From short term to long term perspectives
(5) From centralization to decentralization
(6) From getting help through institutions like government to self-help
(7) From representative to participative democracy
(8) From hierarchies to networking
(9) From a northeastern bias to a southwestern one
(10) From seeing things as “either/or” to having more choices.
He did pretty well, though I suppose 4, 6, 7 and 9 are arguable.
