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There are so many lessons I have learned about technology and leadership throughout this course. However, I will address the following three themes that stand out to me the most and the impact they have on leadership: 1. Advancements in Technology Are Disruptive, Borderless, and Difficult to Predict Improvements in technology have already created fundamental changes at the individual, group, and societal-level. The internet has not only become as a place to obtain information, but is also a place in which social and participatory processes exist. One only has to look at the various social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.) to observe how technology has expanded the manner in which people all over the world connect and communicate. According to Shirk (2016), t echnological improvements don’t equate to success overnight, and instead, are developed through incremental changes in which course corrections are necessary for a particular technology

Wow! This week presented a lot of exciting content! To be honest, I found the article by Andriole (2017) to be the least informative, and I took Gartner’s 10 technological predictions with a grain of salt knowing that previous weeks have pointed out how inaccurate we typically are with predicting what things will be useful in the future. Instead, I thought both of Kelly’s videos this week regarding the future of the web were more interesting and thought-provoking.   Kelly’s (2017) assertion that technology gives us a sense of where it is going but doesn’t provide specifics on what will be developed makes sense. I also agree that the continual improvement and development of artificial intelligence (AI) with the capability to “cognify” it will likely be groundbreaking and have a major influence in the near future (if not already). Kelly’s (2017) point about our poor understanding of how to measure intelligence and his description of different types of intelligence was very abstract and

Social media and its multitude of platforms is reshaping the current social world, rewriting the rules in which social engagement occurs, and the manner in which information is shared and collected. As a result, ethical use of social media has become a controversial topic with no clear consensus that has emerged. Ethical Use of Social Media for the Purpose of Research When researching the topic concerning ethical use of social media, I came across several articles discussing the appropriate use of social media for the purpose of research. For example, a study by Bagdasorov et al., (2017) suggests that social media and people’s perceptions of ethics do share a relationship in that the mere exposure to ethical violations is enough to produce awareness in individuals regarding ethical issues. Although organizations are increasingly relying on social media analytics (SMA) to derive business value, an article by Michaelidou & Micevski (2019) suggests that his has also raised c