View from California: Are recent complaints from the literati -- that the tech industry has overly gentrified and sanitized to extinction the best of San Franscisco -- valid or entirely incorrect?
Though this focuses on examples in California, leaders focused on the future of the workforce everywhere can learn much from what technologists have to say. Technological change has far greater impact on job structure than government policies or business strategies or any other force.
There are reasons to think that Proposition 39, approved last month by voters, may well spur sustainable job creation in energy efficiency and perhaps alternative energy production.
These are remarkable times. And, it could just be that the world has not lost its way, but is in the midst of finding it. Just ask Curiosity. Or check out a map of your DNA.