A Maasai warrior with a spear in one hand and a smartphone in the other—that's the visual shorthand that futurist Daniel Burrus uses when describing how rapidly the world is adopting cloud and mobile technology.

I heard Burrus speak last month at the annual NetVU meeting of Vertafore users, and found his observations to be pretty profound.

Famous for predicting (as early as 1985) networking, virtualization, interactivity and mobility, Burrus isn't just your hired-gun keynote speaker. He has been following our industry's tech evolution for decades.

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