Nick Skytland- NASA Engineer and McCombs MBA
Program Title: Intergenerational Communications and the Digital Natives
Ahh thank you Nick Skytland from NASA for your program last thurs. Clarification of the “generations” - Relating these groups and their interaction to current events, and more important, historical trends! This is a pattern over the centuries, and because it’s a pattern, you can see in relief the difference this time around.
Here we go, fasten seatbelts please – from the machine age to the information age.
Their is a new flux – and it’s everywhere. And the interest from the global corporate world is monetizing these dispersed ideas.
“Is education necessary in the information age?” quite a question. Are Harvard and Rice and other institutions really putting their in-depth education offerings on the net for free now?
And the discussions about 6 of them the one guy explaining the more value he generates for his projects and his employer (a global corporation) through skillful use of social media growing relationships with with ever-more important customers, suppliers, partners etc. - the more of a gap between his current salary and the increasing marginal revenues as a result of his efforts…
Begs the question of “how we do business” “how we define success”
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