News from Dr. Seo

Recent Futures Ph.D. and current futurist at Korea Telecom Yongseok Seo was featured in an article about the "Dream Society" in Korea.


An exerpt:

As Seo is currently doing research in the futures center at KT, he is searching for more ways to understand this new idea.

``Helping people to nurture their creativity will be essential because that’s what the future will be living off of,’’ he stressed.

Similar to the ``digital divide’’ among those who can and cannot use digital technology, ``creative divide’’ is a possibility where a polar effect happens among those who can and cannot create.

In preparation for the Dream Society, the researcher says these are some of the things that can be prepared ahead of time.

``But then again, I’m a conservative thinker while Professor Dator is much more radical,’’ Seo said. ``So he may have some more revolutionary ideas.’’