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Our current research topic is called “Digital Happiness” and we’re exploring new ideas about how companies should interact with their clients and employees. This time we want to share the idea and vision from Andrew Keen: ‘How to Fix the Future’. Keen’s book ‘How to Fix the Future’ will be launched on the 6th of February 2018, but he shared his vision already with us and our clients during our event In Pursuit of Digital Happiness in Brussels on November 9-10 2017.
Andrew thinks he should be called our Chief Unhappiness Officer. He brilliantly puts digital happiness in his unique perspective and asks the CxO’s in the room ‘Who thinks their smartphone improves the relationships with their partner?’ and ‘Who is happy with the time your children spend on their smartphones?’. Curious how many CxO’s put up their hand? Watch Andrew Keen’s take on Digital (Un)Happiness in his exhilarating talk ‘How to Fix the Future’.
About Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen is one of the world’s best known and controversial commentators on the digital revolution.He is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and his current international hit The Internet Is Not The Answer which the London Sunday Times acclaimed as a “powerful, frightening read” and the Washington Post called “an enormously useful primer for those of us concerned that online life isn’t as shiny as our digital avatars would like us to believe”. He is executive director of the Silicon Valley innovation salonFutureCast and a much acclaimed public speaker around the world. In 2015, he was named by GQ magazine in their list of the “100 Most Connected Men”. His next book, How To Fix The Future, will be published worldwide in January 2018
About the In Pursuit of Digital Happiness events
Two recent deep dives with a group of IT Executives gave us more insights in how our current research topic “Digital Happiness” is going to evolve. We’ll share the videos recorded at these meetings that we’ve organized in the coming months. Both in the US (Chicago) and Europe (Brussels) business executives, media experts and academia shared their views on the massive transformative impact of digital technologies. The fundamentals on which the program In Pursuit of Digital Happiness was based are simple: the technological and financial limitations of digital progress have been dealt with. The real question to answer for businesses to be successful in the society that emerges is, “What do we desire?” Happiness, in the broad definition by the school of positive psychology – from fun and the daily pleasure to getting in a state of flow, and the rewarding feeling of living a meaningful life and doing meaningful things – guided the discussions about the social desirability.
