John Patrick Ryan

Business leader, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Startup, Technologist

I am a tech executive with deep Asian and global experience and I am an analytical writer and thinker about technologies and strategies. CEO, Pixel Qi - display startup, US & Taiwan Leading efforts in Taiwan to reform company law and government policies to improve the environment for startups Previously ... Lead technology sector consultant at The Monitor Group; 2005 -2008 One Laptop Per Child contributor and volunteer, including at its launch by United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan in Tunis, 2005. Founder and chief analyst, RHK, leading telecom and tech research and consultancy, 1991 - 2005 I have advised the CEOs of some of the world's largest and most influential telecommunications and technology giants, in the USA, Canada, Britain, Israel, Germany, France, China, Taiwan, Japan and India. At age 22, I earned a doctorate in Physics from Imperial College, London - Europe's top tech university, while also editing the University of London student newspaper, where I researched and wrote ground-breaking pieces on how to defeat apartheid. I put myself through graduate school by working as a journalist for American technical publications, covering nuclear energy, lasers, and telecommunications.

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Coming soon - a new and perfect storm of changes in work, the workforce, the availability and, eventually, the value of work. In the coming decades, the imbalance between the size of the workforce and the scale of available work will grow. Hundreds of millions of would-be-workers will be without work for decades, in countries rich and poor. Thinking about how to weather this storm and create benefit from it - that's gong to be a big deal!