Today, world economies are passing through the eye of the needle; the economic development leaderships of some nations figuring out how to cope with ‘workless’ futurism. Other leaderships are balancing new global age expansion of entrepreneurialism for selective groups and special regions. There is a full range from nightmares scenarios to carnival times. Future of work becomes increasingly darker when placed amongst old mental-blocks. New circus acts demands new Maestros and Ringleaders for the performance to harness the recovery.
Futurism is workless; as robotized and artificially driven technologies will cunningly steal most “human-powering”, the laborious-routine work and displace up to billion workers. The “mental-powering” considered, as untouchable high value contributions of human intelligence will remain intact. The futurism of productivity, performance and profitability now belongs to “creative and critical thinking, complex problem solving, and global age understanding of collaborations, all with diversity, tolerance and mental endurance to manage as tactical designs of an entrepreneurial warrior” The Masters of robots are new-global-age-learners. The Slaves of robots are deniers of change.
The Dreamers; of the long awaited smoggy Fourth Industrial Revolution now awakening to bright First Mental Revolution of Platform Economies; it is the small medium enterprises sprouting all across nations with micro-manufacturing and highly complex global marketing and exportability on digital platforms, which will grow as pulse of the national economy. This subject is still at infancy at major global forums and only whispered at selected podiums for being too revolutionary.
Cold facts and warm realities: Today, at times, a USD$100,000 investment in technology may replace some 100,000 jobs, decade ago it needed a billion dollars to achieve this. Only the most skilled citizenry capable of withstanding emotional endurance on complex and critical thinking will make their nations shine. The abundance of national resources or existing industrial base, without entrepreneurialism and value added creativity only stay as abandoned commodities and without intelligent commercialization, while super-expensive innovation stays rolled up as Intellectual Property archives. Upskilling should become mandatory agenda of national mobilization of entrepreneurialism and not just more universities.
When the march of the billion? Come next 1000 days the global economic stress levels may force such crowding of billion on boulevards of the world. Workless, jobless, and officeless, tired they march…never ever in the history of mankind assembled such number of once mighty, highly skilled, educated and experienced subjected to replacements by their own technological advances.
The humanistic inter-phase with cyber-electro-ergonomics opens a new world: How to nurture human developments and create vibrant healthy working models for billion remote workers. Managing re-training and re-grouping of the hidden entrepreneurial talents are new challenges. Retaining loyalty, rewarding upskilling on performance of productivity and profitability, are new demands.
Understanding a new business models: Futurism of ‘creating local grassroots prosperity’ bifurcates into two distinct national mobilizations. Firstly, creating skilled citizenry capable to swing with global-age demands and secondly, creating massive digitization of midsize economy to enable global-speed-performance to match trading with 100-200 nations. Nations with acquired mastery will thrive and lead; generational transformation at magical speed with full deployments of platform economy is a prerequisite. Unfortunately, the Public Sector across the world is mostly decade behind on such affairs and desperately needs upskilling itself.
Is there any more time, left? No, best suggestion is to bring all trade groups like Chambers of Commerce, National Trade Associations under and Export bodies under large umbrellas of digital platforms? Most importantly, what is stopping to create fast-track intense upskilling of “trade groups” itself and their senior management on operational and digitization aspects? Identifications of such blockades are the initial major steps.
Imagine Upskilling of working citizenry in the next 1000 days: Identify 1000 to 1,000,000 SME in a region in need of global exposure or exportability. Start national mobilization of entrepreneurialism on digital platforms to expand globally. Start discussions with authoritative knowledge and solutions. Such concepts are not new funding dependent, but deployment hungry and execution starved.
Are these the right solutions?
Downtown office can become free boarding on education low cost housing
Downtown retail shops may change into low cost goods and services centers
Downtown become green, solar-lit sustainable highly affordable communities
Are these the right actions?
Plan hardcore authoritative debates on city-planning and global age realities
Conduct new programs on fast track learning before cores destroyed like Detroit
Diversity, tolerance and equality the cements to hold before it turn into ghettos
Are these the right timelines?
The world economies to wait and do nothing until the US elections or new vaccine
The opening and reopening will eventually find its own answers and new life
The world has the greatest opportunities, bring best minds now and optimize human talents
Debate and demand action; follow the trail of silence, and what else would you like to add?
The rest is easy
