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Talent in the Year 2022

Talent has always been a mystery: to define it, to understand it, to cultivate it. It’s one of those things that you can say is difficult to describe, but you know it when you see it.

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Does New Always Mean Innovative?

Mashable has reported that more than 400 people in wigs and mustaches, breaking a Guinness record for most look-alike physicists in one location, invaded the streets of Toronto in a version of an “Einstein-In.” They are part of an online contest to create a new, innovative idea that will improve the world.

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You Are Freaking Me Out

Before us lies the horizon of artificial intelligence. Supposedly we want AI because it is going to revolutionize our work and make the world seamless, integrated and progressive. We have heard that promise before, no? But are we creating a heaven on earth, or digging our own virtual graves?

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Saying Goodbye to the Future

I’m a learning futurist, but the future just became my enemy. My background is in learning and technology — always looking for a way to see possibilities, to leverage opportunities, and to see a roadmap into the future for learners.

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The World According to Darren

H.G. Wells, the futurist and great thinker, once said: “The past is the beginning of the beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.” As you can see, Wells had a broad view of both the possible and the ever-more possible.

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The Steve Jobs I Knew

Steve Jobs was a friend of my late husband, David Karpoff. David was a tech nerd of the first variety—brilliant, quiet, and with the kind of mind that made you always wonder what he was thinking about and how far those thoughts were going to take him.

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