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Paul Saffo

Paul Saffo is a technology forecaster based in Silicon Valley. He is currently a consulting associate professor at Stanford University and a visiting scholar in the Stanford Media X research network.

26 February 2009

The consumer economy that was born in the 1950s is lurching to an end, and a new “creator economy” is emerging. This shift represents the third economic turning in just over a century. A look back at its antecedents reveals much about what to expect.

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