Becoming Survivors in the 4.0 Era
To face the digital era, for instance, we can read Tom Chatsfield’s 2012 title, How to Thrive in the Digital Age, on the relevant competencies that can prepare us for Industry 4.0.
People visit the Start Up Indonesia booth in NextDev Summit 2019 at the Jakarta Convention Center in Central Jakarta in December (7/12/2019). NexDev Summit 2019 was a technology conference that focused on generating positive social impacts to inspire and produce new ideas for the progress of the Indonesian nation. The event with the theme "Spark the Change" connected stakeholders from various backgrounds and facilitated collaboration among various parties to accelerate the digital economy in the country.
"It's technology, not business or government, that's the real driving force behind large-scale societal shifts”. (Sean Parker, US businessman, Napster co-founder and first Facebook resident, as quoted in Move Fast and Break Things, Jonathan Taplin, 2017).
On New Year’s Day, a variety of various reflections came to mind. One emerged upon reading Yasraf Amir Piliang’s contribution, “Repositioning, Reinterpreting and Reimagining Indonesia: Nation-Building through Creativity” in Reinventing Indonesia (Komaruddin Hidayat & Putut Widjanarko, eds., 2008).
