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Small Business & Entrepreneurship
The Next Generation
Preparing Today’s Kids for An Extraordinary Future
Tony Ryan
ISBN: 978-0-7303-4504-6 | Oct 2017 | 200PP
Around 35% of the world’s population is under 20 years of age. Sometimes
referred to as Gen Z and Gen Alpha, they will become the movers and shakers of
the 21st century. Many already are. With widespread access to the internet, this
Future Generation will transform the planet. Their unprecedented entrepreneurial
involvement will unleash one of the greatest economic and social evolutions in
human history.
The timing of their emergence is significant. By most indicators, their rise is
occurring during the best time in human history. It is the safest, the healthiest,
the wealthiest and the most productive era since civilization began. Yet this next
stage in human history will likely be characterized by unrelenting change and
dramatic uncertainty.
This book will clarify those changes for parents and educators, with specific
reference to the pending robot / human interface, and to the near-future dramatic
alterations to the workplace. It will then provide a series of long-term sustainable
options for preparing today’s children for that amazing world up ahead. It will be
a book that accepts the reality of today’s complex and sometimes unsettling
world, and yet it will be a book filled with hope.
About the Author
In his consultancy career of more than twenty years, Tony Ryan has worked in
over 1,000 schools in ten countries with both the teachers and the parents in those
communities. As well as presenting over 100 conference keynotes, and over 1,500
workshops in that time, he has taught children in many of those societies.