Early this week I attended the Emerging Issues Forum, where the topic was "Generation Z." In true Emerging Issues form, the forum was immersed in the culture of Gen Z ... so imagine a thousand technological things popping every second throughout a very long day and a half. I even got to experience my first flash mob! It's a very long story as to how the flash mob came to be, but suffice it to say that it was a keen example of things I have learned about the new world of social technology.
Here's somewhat psychedelic photographic evidence -- I'm sitting with Ruben Carbonell during the Leadership Dinner, held the first night of the Forum at the Contemporary Art Museum in downtown Raleigh:
The EIF experience converges with that of the recent Raleigh Innovation Summit and IES's short history with the E3 (Economy, Energy, Environment) program to prove the old Mega Trend prediction of High Tech/High Touch. The technology allows us to create communities of common interest with ease, and we crave real human interaction as a way to overcome the isolation of technology. Indeed, this social technology is a new world. How are you adjusting? How should we as an organization adjust?
To end as I began, a quick story from the forum about social technology. One of the best speakers of the forum said that when asked by some high falutin' magazine what he thought was the most significant impact of social technology he responded, "Social technology has made really annoying people more annoying." Another adjustment ....
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