My bosses asked me to turn futurist in this beginning-of-year column and predict what this industry will look like a few years down the road.
My bosses — editorial director Jim Olsztynski and editor Steve Smith — asked me to turn futurist in this beginning-of-year column and predict what this industry will look like a few years down the road. Never one to shirk a challenge, I am happy to do so.
But wouldn’t you know it, my crystal ball turned out to be two-sided. One side foretells the future, while the other looks back at almost two generations (38 years) as a businessman to show me how different the world looked back then.