Don Tapscott: Rethinking Civilization for the Social Age SXSW 2012

Don Tapscott opens SXSW Interactive 2012 with his presentation, Rethinking Civilization for the Social Age.

Don discusses how changes in technology, demographics, business and society are moving us into a new period of human history calling for the rebuilding of institutions that have served us for decades.

Don is one of the world's leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology and advises business and government leaders around the world. In 2011 Don was named one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. He has authored or co-authored 14 widely read books including the 1992 best seller Paradigm Shift. His 1995 hit The Digital Economy changed thinking around the world about the transformational nature of the Internet and two years later he defined the Net Generation and the "digital divide" in Growing Up Digital. His 2000 work, Digital Capital, introduced seminal ideas like "the business web" and was described by BusinessWeek as "pure enlightenment." Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything was the best selling management book in 2007 and translated into over 25 languages.

The Economist called his newest work Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet a "Schumpeterian story of creative destruction" and the Huffington Post said the book is "nothing less than a game plan to fix a broken world." Over 30 years he has introduced many ground-breaking concepts that are part of contemporary understanding. It is hard to think of a more prolific or influential thinker today. His work continues as a the Chairman of Moxie Insight, a member of World Economic Forum and as an Adjunct Professor of Management for the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. In 2011, Don placed in the top ten of the Thinkers50 list of the world's most influential management thinkers.

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[globalmagnet]

some really inspiring thoughts in this presentation, thank you Don!

[MarcoLLovatto]

‎"We're gonna see an explosion around the world that will make the 1960s look like kid stuff". (Don Tapscott) - no doubt at all.