The Monster under the Bed
Stan Davis shows us what we've too scared
to see --
the future in all its weirdness
© 2003 by Michael Finley
by Michael Finley
On the sailing ships of old, the main mast was
topped by a lookout post from which a crewman, perched high over everyone
else, could get a first glimpse of events gathering on the far horizon.
This observation post was called the crow's nest.
Standing 6'7" in street shoes, Stan Davis is
a kind of one-man crow's nest, seeing over our heads and over the
choppiness of today's waters to the distant trends that are already
shaping the world we will live and do business in. Author of eight books,
Davis has been patrolling the outer perimeters of change for many years,
keen to identify patterns of evolution in society, trade, and
organizations.
Davis occasionally wishes he were more at his
readers' level. As he paced the sloped set of Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat, peering out in the darkened theater for his
audience, he sometimes resembled a wobbly sailor negotiating the deck in a
choppy sea. Like any decent mariner, he has glimpsed in his travels some
of the good things the future has in store for us, along with some of the
not so good things. Unlike the grocery checkout prognosticators
("Hillary pregnant with Bigfoot's baby!"), Davis is able to
provide a why for most of his whithers.
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Stan Davis