Half of Americans think President Donald Trump will bring the end of days – starting with the tragic loss of several basic cable stars to Canada. The other half thought Hillary would bring World War III, attacking Russia…or formatting Pentagon hard drives. In a way, they were both right. Every economic boom is followed by […]
Log in to listen to a great 30 minute excerpt from my chat with Jeremy Rifkin about the future of human purpose in a tech-drenched world without work. Jeremy is the author of The Zero Marginal Cost Society and The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis, advisor to Angela Merkel and the EU, and
In the latest episode of The McFuture podcast, I spoke with the remarkable Jeremy Rifkin. He’s the best-selling author of The Zero Marginal Cost Society, advisor to Angela Merkel and the EU, and a Wharton lecturer. That many credentials is punishable by hard labor in any self-respecting banana republic… Like me, Rifkin has been thinking
A deep (and funny) look at the new American Revolution. How technology, monopolies, and culture are giving the American dream an extreme makeover. The podcast goes much deeper into who owns the tools of the revolution than the video. Here are the two articles I wrote on this: Who Owns The Tools of Disruption? (on Forbes) & The
So the journey begins. In this episode, I give a sneak peak into some of the themes and guests coming up on the show. I also confess my motivation for torturing myself to create content I’m actually excited – and scared by. More coming next week. And the week after that… Until this kills me.
The number of hours available to consume content maxes out at 16-24 hours a day. By comparison, content creation is nearing infinity, exploding at 40-2000%. Machines already choose content (BuzzFeed) generate videos (Business Insider) and automate social media (Hootsuite). Thousands of articles are written by AI. There’s more TV than anyone can watch. Plus everything new
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We need to talk. About The McFuture. It’s now years after the recession. Unemployment is at record lows, stocks are at record highs, and many of us are at record widths. We float in this infinity pool of Nutella, Netflix, and nip slips. Things that would make Caesar blush. We can learn any skill, order
UPDATE: Here’s full text of the speech: 3 BIG LESSONS FOR COLLEGE FRESHMEN: MY SPEECH TO NYU STERN’S NEW UNDERGRADUATE CLASS I have to admit, until I was invited to keynote the Stern Freshman Convocation on August 27th, I’d never heard the word “convocation” before. Remembering my own freshman year, my best guess was some sort
In one episode of Seinfeld, Elaine finds out the birth control sponge was discontinued. So she buys up all available inventory and obsesses over how “Spongeworthy” her many suitors are. Like Elaine, we luxuriate in the abundance of the information age, but it also hides some uncomfortable scarcities. In watching the recent TEDGlobal event in