1. The Futurist Key Trends Shaping the Future Workplace John Challenger September 2000

2. Technology  Resumes will be implanted in workers’ bodies.  Jobs will demand information systems know-how.  High Tech will relieve labor shortages.

3. Demography  Women shatter the glass ceiling.  End of single-sex jobs.  Boom in birthrate equals boom in opportunities.  Downsizing will breed teen entrepreneurship.

4. Demography Elder Care: Company benefit and business opportunity.  Wanted: Older mangers with previous long-term tenure.  Next: Retiree entrepreneurs.

5. Environment  U. S. work force geography will shift to sunbelt.  Telecommuting will drive U.S. productivity.  Corporate Hotels: Check in and go to work.

6. Economics  Higher education is key to factory jobs.  Business-school partnerships will battle illiteracy and basic job skills.  “Occupational Synthesis” breeds big salaries.

7. Economics  Retail stores: The dinosaur of the next century?  Internet losers lead surge in startups.

8. Government  City-Suburb cooperation for solving a human supply, demand crisis.  Stronger push for rights for the disabled.

9. Society  Culture diversifies: Goodbye Christmas?  Home and work fuse: Goodbye weekends?  The rise of the 24/7 worker.  New workplace problem: Isolation.

10. Roaring 2000s The Greatest Boom in History 1998 – 2009 Harry S. Dent

11. Generations Drive Economy Family spending cycles:  Age 26 – 47 families spend the most $.  Boom periods last 26-29 years followed by bust periods, 12-14 years, after the generation has peaked in its spending.

12. 80-Year Economic Revolutions  Every 80 years, or every 2 generations, we see an economic revolution.  Generations swing back and forth between being more individualistic or being more conformist.  Major changes in technology.

13. Making Way for the New  “An old economy must die for a new one to emerge.”  Outmoded industries, products, services and business practices disappear.  School systems fail for lack of consensus as to how to prepare children for the world they will inherit.

14. Internet – 8 Critical Technology Trends 1.Vastly expanded computer power. (Voice and teleconferencing.) 2.Mass consumption of portable and home computers. 3.Computers evolve into simple, inexpensive appliances. 4.Microprocessor- embedded home appliances linked through the Internet. 15 to 1

15. Internet – 8 Critical Technology Trends 5.Consumers rapidly move online. Mail order to email. 6.Expansion of communications bandwidth. More power. 7.Object-oriented programming for customized software. Icons, Java, digital agents. 8.Increased computer literacy, due to an aging population.