The world is changing all around us. But it's also changing right in front of us: on our television screens, online, with nearly every technological transaction we encounter in our daily lives. Keeping up with the Joneses has taken on a new medium, and Michael Rogers offers his insights on how to adapt. A captivating and entertaining speaker, Rogers provides a clear, common-sense vision of technologic change for both businesses and individuals. He combines a deep knowledge of technology with practical business experience, and has addressed audiences worldwide ranging from venture capitalists and corporate executives to educators, students and the general public.
Pioneering the technological frontier. One of the nation's leading experts on how business and society adapt to the future, Rogers is an interactive media pioneer, novelist and journalist. He is Futurist-in-Residence at The New York Times, as well an interactive media pioneer, novelist and journalist. He also writes the popular Practical Futurist column for MSNBC. His New York-based consultancy, Practical Futurist, works with both startups and major media companies. Rogers is also a best-selling novelist whose fiction explores the human impact of technology.
After a decade as a writer for Rolling Stone, Rogers co-founded Outside magazine. Then he took on the responsibility serving for another ten years as vice president of The Washington Post Company's new media division, where he ushered both the newspaper and its sister publication Newsweek into the new century, and served as editor and general manager of Newsweek.com. In 1993 he produced the world's first CD-ROM newsmagazine for Newsweek, described in the media as a prototype for interactive television, going on to develop interactive areas on Prodigy, America Online and then a series of Internet sites including the award-winning Parents' Guide to Children's Software, which also appeared in CD-ROM and book form. In 1999 he received a patent for the bimodal spine, which is a multimedia storytelling technique, and is listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering.
A multicultural multimedia expert. Rogers' perspective ranges from rural life to the latest science parks. His travels to China inspired his research on that country's own technological accomplishments. He addresses both the enormous strengths that China brings to the global scene as well as the powerful internal contradictions that may still fundamentally alter that nation's future.
A frequent guest on radio and television, Rogers regularly speaks with grace and enthusiasm to audiences worldwide, ranging from venture capitalists and corporate executives to educators, students and the general public. In 1989 he was founding chairperson of the European Technology Roundtable, an annual CEO gathering, which he continues to moderate along with the newer Asian Technology Roundtable.
Over the course of his career Rogers has studied and written about all the key technologies driving this century; he has interviewed or worked with major business figures worldwide; and in his Practical Futurist consultancy he stays current on topics ranging from technology and demographics to management and education. With each appearance he brings not only his own experience and expertise, but his journalism and research skills to add up-to-the-minute information and insight on each topic, from managing change to the implications of the Internet and the human issues of living and working with technology.
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