Constellation Research has identified a series of political, economic, societal, technological, environmental, and legislative trends that will impact your business and your career. At a high level, the noted advisory services firm has identified the following trends:
- Political issues point to a lack of digital proficiency in the political class,
- Economic trends continue to favor innovation over incremental improvement,
- Societal shifts show the impact technological innovation is having on everyone's lives,
- Technological trends continue to fuel innovation and disruption,
- Environmental factors limit the long-term possibilities,
- Legislative reform lags behind technology and loses relevancy as a result.
Here we examine the trend in politics.
Technology ignorance plagues the political class in the West.
Across the Western economies, few elected officials have science backgrounds. Meanwhile, scientists hold eight out of China’s top nine government posts. The lack of science and engineering fundamentals often hinders digital business discussions and the implications of technology policy are unclear to decision makers, who become timid and dependent on lobbyists and other influencers who don't provide unbiased information. For example, lack of scientific understanding around climate change and pollution control technology creates an emotional discussion instead of an objective scientific method approach which causes the United States not to radify the Kyoto Protocol even though 192 other countries agree to the treaty. Severe weather across the much of United States this winter starts to have political implications in cities like Atlanta where citizens start to question the wisdom of such a policy.
On February 27th Constellation Research will be holding a free webinar titled Six Trends Influencing Digital Business Disruption in 2014 to discuss this point and more. The Webinar will be held from 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM PST
