LUMINARY PERSPECTIVE

The Future Is Closer Than You Think

John Coné

The future is much closer than we think. We speak of the past, present, and future in the same way we talk about the Earth, horizon, and sky or the sea, shoreline, and shore. The horizon and the shoreline are imaginary dividing lines. The present is a lot like that. It is a line we imagine between the past and the future.

In the section that follows you will find outstanding thinking about a future that is so close. It is a future in which talent development professionals will leverage artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, machine learning, and analytics. One ...

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