Internet Articles
SXSW Preview: What’s the Next Generation Internet? Surprise: It’s all about the Blockchain!
by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott Yes, the digital revolution has brought countless wonders. The Internet, World Wide Web, Social Media, Mobile Computing, Geospaciality, Big Data and The Cloud, have enabled myriad wonderful developments in virtually every aspect of...
SXSW Preview: Reality Check: The Dark Side of Digital Economy
Not everything I’ve written holds up well. But in re-reading the Digital Economy for 20th Anniversary edition re-write, I’m both struck by how the book has withstood the test of time, and deeply concerned about where we have arrived. The subtitle of the book was...
Keynote Address: Emerging Issues NC
Don Tapscott was the keynote speaker at the North Carolina Emerging Issues Forum. The forum featured some of the world's top thinkers about the future to speak on the state of innovation, from business to education to health. Don spoke about trends in the innovation...
Ericsson: Acting fast in the continually evolving digital economy
Pamela Mallette, new business growth driver for Ericsson's OSS/BSS, interviewed Don Tapscott to ask When we look into the past, we can’t help but also look into the future and ask ourselves: How will these changes carry on and develop into the future? And what...
No Middleman Is Safe In the Digital Economy
Canadian Business Magazine profiled Don Tapscott's reflections on the middleman and how to find places for growth in the digital economy. When Don Tapscott’s The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of the Networked Economy was published in 1994,...
Don Tapscott revisits ‘The Digital Economy’, his internet predictions
Don Tapscott was interviewed by Anna Maria Tremonti of CBC Radio in Canada. From apps to uploads, from smartphones to digital dailies ...technologies have disrupted businesses, society, government and privacy. And 20 years ago, Canadian thinker and business...
The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution
Irish Times: Digital Economy “An extraordinarily prescient book”
Irish Times author Karlin Lillington interviewed Don Tapscott about the Anniversary Edition of the Digital Economy, a book he refers to as 'extraordinarily prescient'. . . . you will read on-the-mark observations and possible future scenarios that have come to...
The Way We Govern the Internet Is a Model in International Cooperation
Every country needs to consider a Bill of Rights for the Digital Age and the meeting has already catalyzed a wave of global activity to ensure that governments, corporations and others do the right thing.