Future Here Now: We are all Charlie

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This week’s Future Here Now focuses on one of the most transformative characteristics of our transition into the Fusion Era, and also one we most overlook. Digital technology — not just social media, but the full range of how we interact online — transforms each individual person into not just a consumer of information, but a creator, a curator, a shaper and a moderator of information. We’re not always very good at handling that new power yet — we end up looking like Jack Jack in The Incredibles, except not as cute.

But despite our very real problems with the impacts of bad information (and sometimes bad actors), this is a profoundly transformative power — in some ways, bigger than the printing press. And we already take it for granted far more than perhaps we should.

So how do we use this new power to help build the future that we want to live in - including in our businesses, organizations and communities?

Try It On

Think for a moment about all of the ways that you communicate …