Moore’s Law has given us cheap,fast, and readily available storage and communication. The Network Effect has provided a means of sharing what has been stored.

So, if a simultaneous global information infrastructure makes filtering and reacting skills and tools of greater value than planning and implementation strategies, what happens then?

Will our . . . → Read More: Is the future becoming extinct?]]> What happens when the simultaneous subsumes the sequential?

Moore’s Law has given us cheap,fast, and readily available storage and communication.
The Network Effect has provided a means of sharing what has been stored.

So, if a simultaneous global information infrastructure makes filtering and reacting skills and tools of greater value than planning and implementation strategies, what happens then?

Will our functional concept of the future be eclipsed by the presence of the present?

My bet is that it will. Likely within the next decade.

Organizations with centralized, hierarchic management relying on review, ratification, and head office approval will lose ground. Agile, decentralized networks of smaller firms/groups/movemements will not necessarily take over, but will simply  succeed without laborious 20th century methodologies and infrastructures . Understanding a situation or event will be more valuable than managing it.

There are hurdles. The ubiquity of the cell phone as a powerful platform for change holds  great promise. The existing network speed, range, lack of inter-operability and expensive data rates are a leash held by the telcos.

I’m optimistic.
I’m patient.
We’ll get there.

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New Phone makers – I’m lusting after smart phones, but I’m waiting. Mostly I’m waiting for the carriers to market them like the computers they are, and discount the bandwidth the same way they . . . → Read More: Things I like Today, Feb. 2, 2009]]> India’s $10 Laptop to be revealed Feb. 3. – I’ll take 3, thank you.

Cyborg Bugs – So, what OS is optimal for beetles?

New Phone makers – I’m lusting after smart phones, but I’m waiting. Mostly I’m waiting for the carriers to market them like the computers they are, and discount the bandwidth the same way they currently do talk minutes.

The history of the future -  So many promises unfulfilled…sigh. Instead, we get stuck with the f@#king Hummer

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I’ve been looking for a new geeky website. Thankfully, I found one.