The Future of Business Education Isn’t What You Think It Is: How Cognitive Systems and Industry 4.0 Will Revolutionize Management.
In the age of accelerations, the best way to predict the future is to inspire the next generation of students and early career talent to build a better world (Friedman 2017). Building a better world requires grit and better building blocks, and perhaps even heroism at times ( Duckworth 2016; Hatch 2013; Lowney 2010; Hannibal, 2017). Artificial Intelligence/Intelligence augmentation, virtual reality/augmented reality, blockchain/open technologies, and material/energy systems provide these new building blocks (Domingos 2015; Antunes 2012). In the corner of my garage, there is a stack of boxes my wife is after me to throw out. Old stereos, sound systems, albums, cameras, video recorders, computers, and more that I paid many thousands of dollars for as a struggling student then early career professional over the years. Today my smartphone provides all these functions, and more – such as speech translation from other languages – at a fraction of the earlier cost (Gada 2017; Gershuny 2003). By 2035, no one can yet predict the form factor of your mobile device, but projections indicate that it will have an exascale of computing power – the computing power estimate of one person’s brain (Friedman 2017; Norman 1993). Let’s explore together the implications of cognitive systems and Industry 4.0 on the future of business education. (Hint: Faculty and students will need to become more T-shaped!).
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For even more readings:
Top 10: https://service-science.info/archives/4416
Holiday 2016: https://service-science.info/archives/4333
Jobs of the Future: https://service-science.info/archives/4430
For relevant presentation see:
IBM Welcome and Cognitive Futures
https://www.slideshare.net/spohrer/ibm-welcome-and-cognitive-20170322-v7
Per request of Timothy Keiningham