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January 15, 1929 |
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
|Alma mater||Harvard University, Cornell University, University of Utah|
|Known for||Futures studies|
John Naisbitt (born January 15, 1929 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American author and public speaker in the area of futures studies. His first book Megatrends was published in 1982. It was the result of almost ten years of research. It was on the New York Times bestseller list for two years, mostly as No. 1. Megatrends was published in 57 countries and sold more than 14 million copies.
John Naisbitt studied at Harvard, Cornell and Utah Universities. He gained business experience working for IBM and Eastman Kodak. In the world of politics he was assistant to the Commissioner of Education under President John F. Kennedy and served as special assistant to HEW Secretary John Gardner during the Johnson administration. He left Washington in 1966 and joined Science Research Associates. In 1968 he founded his own company, the Urban Research Corporation. Naisbitt founded the Naisbitt China Institute, a non-profit, independent research institution studying the social, cultural and economic transformation of China located at Tianjin University. In 2009, Naisbitt published China's Megatrends, a book analyzing China's rise. Adviser on Agricultural development to the royal government of Thailand, former visiting fellow at Harvard University, visiting professor at Moscow State University, faculty member at the Nanjing University in China, distinguished International Fellow, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia – the first non-Asian to hold this appointment, professor at Nankai University, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, member of the advisory Board of the Asia Business School, Tianjin, recipient of 15 honorary doctorates in the humanities, technology and science. John Naisbitt and his wife Doris are based in Vienna and Tianjin/China.
Naisbitt has had a profound influence on leading modern day futurists, such as David Houle and others.
Although Naisbitt has not written an explicitly political book, Megatrends expressed early enthusiasm for radical centrist politics. The book states, in bolded type, "The political left and right are dead; all the action is being generated by a radical center".
- Megatrends. Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives. Warner Books, 1982
- Reinventing the Corporation. Transforming Your Job and Your Company for the New Information Society. Warner Books, 1985
- Megatrends 2000. Ten New Directions for the 1990s. William & Morrow Company, Inc., 1990
- Global Paradox. The Bigger the World Economy, the More Powerful Its Smallest Players. William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1994
- Megatrends Asia. Eight Asian Megatrends That Are Reshaping Our World. Simon & Schuster, 1996
- High Tech/High Touch. Technology and our Accelerated Search for Meaning. Nicholas Braely Publishing, 2001
- Mind Set! Reset Your Thinking and See the Future. Collins, 2006.
- China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars Of A New Society. HarperCollins, 2010.
- John Naisbitt's official home page
- Naisbitt China Institute website
- USA Today ("Naisbitt turns lust for life into mega book career") 25-Sep-2006 at the Wayback Machine (archived August 15, 2007)
- Appearances on C-SPAN