The LNC Alumni Group is bringing futurist and best-selling author Joel Kotkin to speak at our first-ever ‘Momentum Breakfast’ April 15, 2008 from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Learn more about our speaker at www.joelkotkin.com.
Tickets are $30 each, include breakfast and you can register at http://www.csusm.edu/el/conferences/contact_us.php?id=755. The event will be held at the Sheraton Carlsbad Resort and Spa at 5480 Grand Pacific Drive off Cannon Road in Carlsbad
Kotkin’s most recent book, ‘The City: A Global History,’ studied what cities since the beginning of recorded history through to the present needed in order to become great. Kotkin found that healthy, reliable infrastructure such as roads, schools, medicine, food and water supply were the best indicators of future success. His back to basics message is at odds with the influential creative class theory popularized by author Richard Florida (see www.creativeclass.org) that touts talent, technology and tolerance as the primary elements for achieving success in today’s knowledge-based economy.
What do you think? Should we focus on Technology, Tolerance and Talent to win in the new Knowledge-based Economy or is North County's Infrastructure a better bet?
