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Dear Future-Oriented Thinker:
AC2004 is a forum for
exploring our rapidly changing times. Covering multidisciplinary
trends and strategic implications of accelerating change,
each year we highlight a number of today's most dynamic and
creative leaders and processes of change, and focus on those
likely to have the greatest impact on our global, national,
cultural, and personal futures.
This groundbreaking event is a must for individuals interested
in staying abreast of the most important issues of our time.
With its high caliber of speakers, attendee networking, and
the broad relevance of its carefully chosen dialogs, AC2004
has the potential to be a landmark experience for participants.
Accelerating Change offers
three main benefits:
- a community of uniquely systems-oriented,
tech-aware attendees,
- foresight into present and coming accelerating
developments, and
- guidance in navigating today's complex
sociotechnological landscape.
The conference networks practical, future-oriented individuals
with diverse backgrounds, who seek increasingly balanced,
global, and inclusive ways of understanding the changes that
affect their lives. AC2004
provides guidance for discriminating between evolutionary
and developmental change, for understanding the unprecedented
changes now occurring and soon to occur in several computation-driven
technologies, and for choosing intelligent paths through the
thicket of information, options, and technological innovation.
Why Should You Attend? Accelerating
Change promotes high-yield, multidisciplinary,
and critical understanding of accelerating technological change
in service to personal, executive, and professional development.
You'll meet uniquely broad minded, synthetic-thinking practical
futurists and change-makers here, and the connections you
make will be among the most important, productive, and informative
in your life.
Who Should Attend? Anyone with an interest
or responsibility for trend tracking, forecasting,
investing, competitive intelligence, strategic planning, policy
analysis, product development, business development, and
change management.
Today, every technology-dependent executive and organizational
leader is a de facto futurist. Certain types of change
are now so rapid, and occasionally so disruptive, that only
the most vigilant and foresighted are ready for what comes.
At the same time technological processes, platforms and products
are frequently overhyped, overinvested, and underdesigned.
Navigating the ever-shifting landscape of the modern technological
world requires a critical, change-aware attitude, a philosophy
of lifelong learning, and the ability to network with a multidisciplinary
community of strategic change leaders. Each of us makes insight
and foresight emerge by committing to participate in unique
communities like AC2004.
I cordially invite you to join us at Stanford this November.
John Smart
President, ASF
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