The Fourth Shock by Author Ron Bienvenu, CEO of alqemyiQ
At current rates of growth, by the year 2016 Wal-Mart will become the 10th largest economy in the world, surpassing the gross domestic product of the entire country of France. The Fourth Shock explores this and other head-scratching ideas about the impact of new technologies on the global economy. It is not every day that a book sings the praises of Enron and rails against Apple, but these are just some of the surprises in store for the reader in this wry and fun-filled read. Simply stated, The Fourth Shock poses a fascinating view about how mobility and other rapidly emerging technologies will affect the world as dramatically as the Internet did over the last 15 years.
A keen sense of the obvious doesn’t make someone a visionary. And the “obvious” today is that there are 4.1 billion active mobile phone subscriptions and this will have an impact on the way the world works. To compare this staggering number, there are approximately 850 million active personal computers, 1.5 billion televisions, 1.5 billion Internet nodes and 1.4 billion credit cards in use in the world today. read more…
About the Author
From his early years growing up in a small town in Louisiana through two software start-ups and a hostile takeover on Wall Street, Fourth Shock author Ron Bienvenu has always been deeply involved with technology and its impact on the world at large. As current CEO of alqemyIQ, he continues to shake the business world by delivering cutting edge technologies to mainstream markets.In 1988, he founded his first successful software company, while his second company, SageMaker, became a global provider of knowledge management solutions for some of the largest organizations in the world. During his varied career he has led a division of a public company with more than 2,000 employees and over $500 million in sales, served as the lead investor in a hostile takeover attempt of a public software company, been involved in over 50 public and private M&A transactions, and raised over $250 million in various financing ranging from venture capital to senior secured debt. He is the author of numerous articles and has been an active participant in the lecture circuit since 1996. His comprehensive view of the industry and his unique way of looking at the world gives him interesting and relevant insights on the impact of new technologies on every aspect of business.
