Page 8 - Are You Future Ready?

To be ready for the future we need to understand where
we are today, and what is the current state of play. This

can be harder than it seems, science and technology are
changing very fast and keeping abreast of developments
can feel exhausting. When I was a child in the 1970s a

telephone was a large device usually placed on a shelf
or a table, it was connected to the wall by a curly wire.
Now I carry a small rectangular object in my pocket,
which weighs just a few grams. I can use it for taking
photographs, storing those pictures, storing and listening

006 to music, researching almost any question that occurs to
me, checking my location, watching movies, reading my
email, learning a new language, and many other functions,

in addition to talking to people anywhere in the world. It
can be tempting for us as individuals, for organisations,
and for society to allow this pace of change to overwhelm
us. But, properly harnessed these changes can be used to
help and support us. This I see is part of Dr Tang’s thesis in

this book, a call to embrace the current state of technology
and to fully utilise its capacity in helping us function as
individuals and as a society.

Science progresses, technology advances, and we in