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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...
Best Advice: Leave the Executive Fast Track to Become an Entrepreneur
Thirty-five years ago (yep, that sure dates me), a colleague dragged me kicking and screaming away from my fast-track executive career to join her in launching our own company. At the time, I was deeply anxious — worried this would end up being the biggest mistake of...
Could Huronia hospital become a Banff Centre of the east?
The Star's Martin Knelman asked Don Tapscott and other cultural heavyweights about the possibility of turning the shuttered Huronia hospital into a Banff Centre of the East. “This could be the most important development for the region since the arrival of...
Davos 2015 Wrap-Up: Get Ready for Breakthroughs About the Brain
The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos is over for another year. Amazingly, most of what was discussed this year had not been on the radar a year ago. A year ago there was no discussion of oil prices dropping to say $50; the acronym ISIS was never mentioned;...
Extreme Disparity of Wealth Dominates Davos
(Davos) With extreme wealth also comes extreme political clout which results in extreme human suffering, said Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International at a panel session this week in Davos.Byanyima helped set the tone for this year’s World Economic...
CBC Radio Interview – The Digital Economy: Capitalism 2.0?
Don Tapscott was interviewed by Spark, Canada's tech, trends, and fresh ideas show on CBC Radio. Twenty years after writing his bestseller The Digital Economy, Don Tapscott looks at the new challenges facing the digital economy and asks the questions every...
At Davos, Technology CEOs Discuss The Digital Economy
Davos: One of the most anticipated discussions at this year’s meeting was the plenary session on The Digital Economy. Given that I wrote the book that coined that term 20 years ago, I attended with great interest. On the panel were Google chairman Eric Schmidt,...
Davos 2015: What Future Do You Want?
Davos: Do you agree or disagree that in the future we will think “Inserting radio-frequency identification in our babies’ bodies is as normal as vaccination”?This is just one of many provocative questions put to the participants in a spirited Davos session entitled...
Davos 2015: International Conflict is Top Global Risk
Davos: There is much discussion of global risks this week at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, and illustrating today’s volatility, the biggest threat to the stability of the world was not even on last year’s list -- international conflict. That is the...