Digital Darwinism and COVID-19: Businesses must adapt or perish in new economy
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Brian Solis, digital anthropologist and a global innovation evangelist at Salesforce, talks about how the novel coronavirus will spark innovation, and how companies and businesses must “adapt or die” in the new economy.
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| 0:00.0 | Business as usual. It's not going to sound like that anymore, not after the digital revolution, which already was changing society so fast that businesses couldn't keep up with |
| 0:22.1 | consumers or their own employees. Then came social distancing, the novel coronavirus on top of |
| 0:29.5 | the novel economy. Brian Sola says it's all about social Darwinism, and remember the story of |
| 0:36.3 | evolution? Adapt or die? Will you ever like a toilet |
| 0:40.9 | paper the same way? Brian Solis has known all over the world for writing and speaking. His latest book |
| 0:46.2 | is Life Scale, How to Live a More Creative, Productive Life. He is a digital anthropologist |
| 0:52.7 | and a global innovation evangelist at Salesforce. |
| 0:57.5 | Brian Solis, welcome to The Point. |
| 0:59.8 | That was quite an introduction. |
| 1:01.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:01.9 | It's great to be here. |
| 1:03.1 | Well, it's quite an introduction because you have quite a lot of new terminology for people |
| 1:07.2 | to understand. |
| 1:08.1 | Digital Darwinism, digital anthropologist, global innovation evangelist. |
| 1:14.2 | Those are all new terms. Just as long as everybody knows that those are bona fide terms, |
| 1:20.4 | it's not necessarily a buzzword bingo game, but they are reflective of the times in which we live. |
| 1:26.9 | Well, what about the times in which we live? |
| 1:29.4 | We have a digital revolution, which you've been talking about for quite a while, |
| 1:32.9 | and now we have the coronavirus situation, which of course is global, affects everybody in the world. |
| 1:40.6 | How do they go together? |
| 1:41.6 | One thing that I wish wasn't at the source of this conversation |
| 1:46.1 | was this global pandemic and the disruption that it's sowing. It is, it is unfortunate. At the same time, |
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