Gary A. Bolles is the author of “The Next Rules of Work: The mindset, skillset, and toolset to guide your organization through uncertainty,” and the Chair for the Future of Work for Singularity University.
Artificial Intelligence
Can We Love a Trillion Robots?
There will be far more smart software than we can quite literally imagine. Are we ready for “the Sorceror’s AI”?
Artificial Intelligence
Interviewing ChatGPT On What’s Next For Human Work
I asked ChatGPT about its potential threats to jobs and how humans can compete with AI generated content. It provided telling insights and some good advice. Note: All dialogue verbatim.
Business
One Year After the Great Reset: Same Storm, Different Boats
Some countries, industries, organizations, and people basically shrugged off the pandemic. Others may never fully recover. The good news: We have our start date for a new mindset.
Business
Your Pandemic-Era Business Model: Digital Dimes
If the historic Big Shift in media offers useful signposts, businesses can expect more competition, faster change, and continuous downward pressure on price. So, here are three recommendations from a recovering media executive.
The Limits of the Virtual
It often seems that nearly everything can be done and done better (or at least facilitated) online. But some activities (like this conference) remain resolutely non-virtual. What are the limits of the digital in products, services, the workplace, and business in general? What about human relations, communications, education and training, or science and medicine? Gary Bolles of eParachute, Alexa Hirschfeld of Paperless Post, Ericsson's Vish Nandlall, Facebook's Cory Ondrejka, and Paul J. Zak of Claremont Graduate University discuss. Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
An Effective You: How Do You Need to Change for the Future
Jobs guru Dick Bolles, author of the seminal What Color Is Your Parachute? talks with his son Gary Bolles, co-founder of eParachute, about how individuals can proactively manage their careers as if they were startups. Gary: We’re going to explore some of the different ideas I think that have been reflected in earlier discussions today […]
Conferences
Techonomy 19
The theme for Techonomy 2019 in Half Moon Bay, California was “Reset and Restore: Governing Tech, Retrieving Ethics, and Acting on Climate.” We are in a unique period when corporate responsibility and big-picture thinking is absolutely essential.
Conferences
Techonomy 17
“The idea that fake news on Facebook…influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea,” said Mark Zuckerberg onstage at Techonomy 2016. He has subsequently recanted.
Conferences
Health 16
Our first Techonomy Health roundtable is a multidisciplinary dialogue exploring what healthcare can become in a technologized and hyper-connected age.
Conferences
Techonomy 16
MANkind’s evolving relationship with tools and MACHINES is nothing new. But the speed at which we, and everything around us, are becoming more closely connected and NETWORKed is.
