At the International Franchise Association’s Legal Symposium last month, the featured speaker was Jack Uldrich, a well-known futurist and author of numerous books. The message he conveyed to the audience was both exciting and frightening: Dramatic change is inevitable in today’s society, and, even more importantly, there are fields where the change will not only be constantly occurring, but the degree of change will be exponential.
I have personally been fascinated by futurists for decades. My first exposure to the subject was in 1968, when I attended a non-credit course, offered at Tulane University, during the summer between my sophomore and junior years in college. While my memory of the exact details of the lecturer’s presentation is weak, I recall him trying to describe some of the ways our lives would change by the year 1984. I remember discussion about computers and cars. The lecturer, I might add, was a then unknown graduate student working on his PhD. His name was Newt Gingrich.
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