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Back in December of 2008 I put this post together “2009 and Beyond – Threats and Opportunities”

I have been a subscriber to The Future of Work newsletter for a year or so, and Jim Ware and Charlie Grantham are definitely two of the most astute observers of what is happening in this rapidly changing world. The most recent newsletter has a couple of articles that bear further review, and I will share some of that with you this week.

As we move into the new year, many of us in the Social Media field have been making some predictions about the marketplace. Ware and Grantham have gone a step further and made some predictions about the global economy and political landscape. See The Virtues of Near Death for some remarkable observations:

In our very humble opinion, the next several years will bring a number of near-death experiences to many businesses, public agencies, and, yes, even sovereign nations. And we’re sorry to say that some of those near-deaths will result in actual extinctions. Not every corporate dinosaur is going to survive the global cataclysm that we’re facing today.

Being futurists at heart, then, we’d like to close with a few predictions.

We’ve already seen the meltdown in financial services. Look for similar events and patterns in:

* Health care (in the United States)
* Higher education – both public and private
* Transportation – both local and long-distance
* Local municipal governments

It does look like these industries are teetering on the brink of some sort of big, big changes.

Read the whole article at “2009 and Beyond – Threats and Opportunities” and share your thoughts.