The Future is now

(The paper was originally prepared for the International Conference on “Issues and Challenges of Business in Emerging Economy” in Bhubaneswar, India January 2019

Globally there continues to be concern about the widening income gap and for good cause. The “ World Inequality Report 2018 “ indicates globally that inequality has increased worldwide at different rates. The good news is that global wealth creation gains have been made; the not so good news is that the top 1% garner a significant share of the growth while the bottom 50% continues to be stagnant causing many in the bottom 50% to be subsisting on long term constant low levels of poverty.

The final version of the paper will address the question of the future of work and entrepreneurship in the following sections:

I. Global wealth and income disparities

II. Exploring options for increasing the utilization of global diverse talent

III. Hope for the future of technology and entrepreneurial innovations

IV. Unity in community and capacity building

V. Conclusions

Brooklyn New York is leading the transformation in developing multi-generational, multi-ethnic, multi income talent for the changes to come.