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Name: Ashfaq Tunio
Bio: Knowlege- and technology-management consultant
Area of Expertise: Futurist/Consultant
Topic: Economic structures
Headline: The 10-billion-person organization
Nutshell: People will have an incredible amount of job flexibility, and they will take advantage of working for anyone anywhere.
Vision:Cheaper, faster computing; enhanced, ubiquitous networks; better search-and-match software; and standardized contract protocols will enable all 10 billion of Earth’s human population to work as free-lancers, switching jobs and working when and as long as they like. The borders between corporations will become blurred, and the entire human race will, in effect, become one huge socio-economic organization.
Date Submitted: February 22, 2005