Digital Delights

In a world driven by exponential, accelerating technological and social change, globalization, and a push for more creative and context-driven innovations, how can we ensure the success of ourselves as individuals, communities, and the planet? This special issue of On the Horizon explores the converging futures of learning, work, and how we relate with each other in this emerging paradigm.

Of particular importance is the emerging class of borderless, “new” workers; or, as I like to call them, knowmads:

[…] a nomadic knowledge worker – that is, a creative, imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere. Industrial society is giving way to knowledge and innovation work. Whereas industrialization required people to settle in one place to perform a very specific role or function, the jobs associated with knowledge and information workers have become much less specific in regard to task and place (Moravec, 2008).