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Signals
In futurist analysis, signals are indicators of where we might be going in the future. Signals can be big or little, they can be boring or profound, and they might be right…or they might be wrong. But they’re often early signs of newly-developing trends, ideas, technological applications or cultural transitions.
Here’s three Signals that I think may help us understand the future of distributed power — at work, and in the world.
Bossware: nope.
In the Industrial Era, our managers mostly knew whether we were earning our paychecks because they could see what we were doing. But with many jobs now able to be performed remotely, that doesn’t work. As we might expect, many companies
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