Four Ages of Modern Man

▶ Agricultural Age 10,000 years ago

▶ Industrial Age 300 years ago

▶ Information Age 40 years ago

▶ Shift Age 2006-

Inflection Point in History

▶ A New Millennium

▶ A New Century

▶ A New Age - The Shift Age

▶ A New Decade – Transformation Decade

The Three Forces of the

▶ The flow to Global

▶ The flow to the Individual

▶ Accelerating Electronic Connectedness

Entering the Shift Age

▶ There are 7 billion people –

▶ 5.6 billion are cellphone users

▶ We live in a Broadband world

▶ Physical Reality – Screen Reality

▶ 2012: first year more mobile computing devices are sold than

non-mobile devices

▶ 700 million

▶ 2013 – 2016: 1Billion + sold a year

Transformation Decade: 2010 - 2020

▶ “A change in form, appearance, nature or character”

▶ The Collapse of Legacy Thinking

▶ First decade of 21st Century Thought

The Five Contexts of the Shift Age

▶ The Earth Century

▶ Retrofitting the 20th Century

▶ The concept of Place has changed forever

▶ Biology and Technology merge

▶ An Evolutionary Shift in Consciousness

Shift Age Generations

▶ The Millennials

▶ The Digital Natives

The Ascendency of Women

▶ The Shift Age will be the age when all the economic,

cultural and social gender definitions from the first

three ages of history will be changed.

The Era of Big Data

▶ One of the most significant developments of the Shift Age

▶ Third stage of mapping for humanity

▶ Real time Anthropology and Sociology

▶ Explosive new fields of employment

Shift Age Power

▶ Control Power – old

▶ Influence Power – new

▶ Intellectual Property

▶ An Idea whose time has come

Geo-Political

▶ Global Stage of Human Evolution

▶ Nation States- a time of transition

▶ New Global issue based entities

▶ Golden Age of Africa

▶ Unprecedented Mass Migration

Entering the Shift Age

▶ We are now in the Shift Age

▶ How long? 20 – 30 years

▶ Remember the Three Forces and the Five Contexts of

the Shift Age

▶ Welcome to the greatest age of human

transformation in history!

Thank You!

▶ David@DavidHoule.com

▶ www.DavidHoule.com

▶ @EvolutionShift