EPILOGUE

What the Future Holds

SLOWLY BUT SURELY, THE WORLD WAS CATCHING UP WITH STEVE LEWIS’S vision. In the July/August 2015 issue of Harvard Magazine, author Stephanie Garlock wrote: “The Internet of Things promises to change the way consumers live. But the industrial shift—forcing companies far beyond Silicon Valley to join the tech world—might be even more significant.”1

As Garlock’s article went to press, our small band of future-builders came together from around the world to assess their own future. Living PlanIT’s executive team met in June 2015 in a rented house in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the setting for the book and movie The Perfect Storm, a story that has become a metaphor for the collision of unlikely events. Joining them were ...

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