Imagine that you are invited to talk about the future of our community 20 years from now. That is exactly what 14 *civic leaders set out to do on a May afternoon at the Marriott. For your benefit, I’m providing a synopsis of the outcome and invite you to send me your own reflections:

It won’t surprise you that we concluded that the population shift to the Southeast will continue; life expectancy will increase significantly; geographic boundaries will blur; that everybody will be in the know; and that technological advances (such as bio-, nano-, genetics, robotics, Internet, renewable energy and sustainability) will be the big economic drivers of the future.

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