Permalink | View blog reactions Categories : Technology trends Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us | Share on Facebook About the blog author Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker , strategy advisor, and bestselling author. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

» Technologically Externalized Knowledge and Learning Let’s take a step back and consider how well we are using learning technology in contrast with what is possible given advances over the last decade. Education has undergone enormous changes to curriculum, instructional methods, and technologies used. MORE >>

However now we have access to many technological tools, which if used well, can assist us in coping with information overload. We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Everything I wrote is still completely valid. John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends. MORE >>

On the one hand, in a world in which society and business are largely based on the flow of information and ideas, there is a massive opportunity for those professionals who can help organisations get the right messages out. As individuals, we build perceptions of the world around us based on the many inputs we receive. Web 2.0 MORE >>

Yet technology is far from the only factor changing the nature of professional services. The ever-increasing access to professional education and information changes the role and value of specialist knowledge. He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters. MORE >>