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Hardin is a management consultant with extensive international experience. He is CEO of Synthesys Strategic Consulting, a management consulting firm based in Australia. Hardin specialises in futures analysis and strategy development, and is an experienced scenario planner. Before moving to Australia he was a senior consultant with Global Business Network (GBN), a research and consulting firm in California, and he continues to work with GBN in Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region. In addition to his strategy work, Hardin has made significant contributions on issues involving technology and environment, and he is the author of an influential paper defining industrial ecology, a new approach to industrial sustainability. Before joining GBN, Hardin was a consultant at Arthur D. Little, Inc., the international management, technology and environmental consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Technology, Insight and the Internet: Catalysts
for Future Transformation
Global macro-scenarios show that the world economy is poised to enter a radical period of transition that may come to be known as the "sustainability revolution". Just as the industrial revolution marked the beginning of a rapid physical expansion phase lasting 200 years, so the sustainability revolution now marks its end. As physical and population growth slows, another form of expansion is just beginning. This is the rapid acceleration of the non-physical. Most obviously this takes the form of information and communications -- as symbolized by the rise and significance of the Internet -- plus emerging technologies for the "dematerialization" of the physical, such as nanotechnology. But it also includes the awakening of genuine spiritual awareness in individuals, with a consequent transformation of social values. In many ways the story of the next few decades will be the co-evolution of inner and outer knowledge, as "outer" information and "inner" awareness accelerate humanity into an expanding future very different from the recent past.
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