Dec/099
Welcome To Our Flat World
We are experiencing what some would call a “Revolution.” Actually, what we are experiencing is an “Evolution” of extraordinary magnitude. In order to understand were we are going, let’s begin by taking a quick look at where we’ve been.
The first half of the 20th century was an absolute disaster in human affairs. A cataclysm. We had the first world war, the great depression, the second world war and the rise of the communist nation. Each one of these forces tore the world apart at the seams. We also threw up barriers to human affairs which include:
Jun/095
Exponential Innovation & Institutional Demise
Innovation refers to incremental, radical, and/or revolutionary change. Change in thinking, products, processes, and/or institutions & organizations. It’s fueled by creative people on an unending journey to make things faster, smaller, cheaper, cleaner, simpler; people who put their heart and soul into their craft without regard. Institutions or organizations are deliberately and intentionally created by people. The development of functional institutions in society in general may be regarded as an instance of emergence; meaning, institutions arise, develop and function in a pattern of social self-organization, which goes beyond the conscious intentions of the individual humans involved. It is the mechanical and traditional way effort is coordinated.