by John M. DeMarco | Jul 25, 2020 | Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Existential Threats
Due to many intersectional injustices, Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color are more severely impacted by catastrophic weather events and ongoing environmental shifts driven by climate change. The United States, like most industrialized countries,...
by John M. DeMarco | Jul 12, 2020 | Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Existential Threats
Black people are being disproportionately infected with and impacted by COVID-19. Nationwide, they are dying at a rate 2.3 times higher than White people. As of Oct. 3, the virus has claimed at least 40,000 Black lives. Black people account for 21% of...
by John M. DeMarco | Sep 28, 2019 | Existential Threats
Industrial complexes are one of five important disruptors affecting everyone and everything on the planet, interacting with each other in intricate ways, for better and for worse. These complexes arise when a specific industry and its proponents or lobbyists become...
by John M. DeMarco | Sep 25, 2019 | Existential Threats
Climate Change is the shift in global or regional climate patterns, occurring from the mid-to-late 20th Century onward, attributed largely to increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels. “Greenhouse gases” trap heat and make the...
by John M. DeMarco | Sep 1, 2019 | Careers, Business, and Digital Transformation, Existential Threats
What is “disruption,” above and beyond someone simply interrupting you while you’re busy? In business terms, disruption is an innovation that creates a new market and new customer habits within a particular industry, rattling the established,...
by John M. DeMarco | Aug 31, 2019 | Careers, Business, and Digital Transformation, Existential Threats
Here’s quick, working definitions of each of the five biggest disruptors driving the relentless change and ambiguity impacting everyone in different, yet interrelated, ways: Algorithms Algorithms are processes or sets of rules followed in calculations or...
