40. Consumerization of IT
Interconnected networks
Integrated suppliers
Outsourcing
Identity
App prolilferation
Transactional relationships
Third party contractors
44. “…information is important as a stage in the continuous
process by which we observe the outer world, and act
effectively upon it.” … “There is no Maginot line of the
brain.”
“In anything like a normal situation, it is both far more
difficult and far more important for us to ensure that we
have an adequate knowledge than to ensure that some
enemy does not have it.”
“We need to emphasize our ability to observe and
process the world, rather than protect what we know.”
James Watt and his contemporaries thought they were inventing a form of locomotion, but they were unleashing social gravitational forces.
The machine led to political movements around the world. May 4th movement in China pictured.
Reductionism, a new mode of thought, came from the machine.
Leonard Kleinrock, Lawrence Roberts, Robert Kahn, and Vint Cerf thought they were building a computer network…
It is ushering in a period of decentralized organizations, global interdependencies, strained national sovereignty, geo-spanning niche cultures, long tail enablement, surprising forms of collective production, new forms of political participation, complex non-linear systems, non-state (or tacitly-state-sponsored) cyber conflict and on and on…
It is ushering in a period of decentralized organizations, global interdependencies, strained national sovereignty, geo-spanning niche cultures, long tail enablement, surprising forms of collective production, new forms of political participation, complex non-linear systems, non-state (or tacitly-state-sponsored) cyber conflict and on and on…
It is ushering in a period of decentralized organizations, global interdependencies, strained national sovereignty, geo-spanning niche cultures, long tail enablement, surprising forms of collective production, new forms of political participation, complex non-linear systems, non-state (or tacitly-state-sponsored) cyber conflict and on and on…
It is ushering in a period of decentralized organizations, global interdependencies, strained national sovereignty, geo-spanning niche cultures, long tail enablement, surprising forms of collective production, new forms of political participation, complex non-linear systems, non-state (or tacitly-state-sponsored) cyber conflict and on and on…
It is ushering in a period of decentralized organizations, global interdependencies, strained national sovereignty, geo-spanning niche cultures, long tail enablement, surprising forms of collective production, new forms of political participation, complex non-linear systems, non-state (or tacitly-state-sponsored) cyber conflict and on and on…
It is ushering in a period of decentralized organizations, global interdependencies, strained national sovereignty, geo-spanning niche cultures, long tail enablement, surprising forms of collective production, new forms of political participation, complex non-linear systems, non-state (or tacitly-state-sponsored) cyber conflict and on and on…
Modernism and reductionism already took a drubbing in the postmodern counter-culture of the 70’s, and now they are in their final steep decline. They are being supplanted by a new kind of network empiricism that will exert its own gravitational force on our social and organizational fabric.
Rouge River Ford plant by Sheeler – corporations became ever larger, compelled by economies of scale and concentration of capital.
Frederick Taylor. Harbinger of reductionism, planning, and control.
Data processing
Connective backplane
Waggle dance for consensu
The brain of the corpus enterprise
The brain of the corpus enterprise
Stand knee deep cursing the tide?
Aside: My mom knows fractals, she grows these in her garden.