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Category Archives: Fourth Revolution
How we can take advantage of the freak events that really shape our world
In this final post on the topic of complexity (read “How the Fourth Revolution brings us from the complicated to the complex” and “What we can learn from complex systems to understand today’s world“ if you’ve missed them), we take some … Continue reading
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Change your mind first to change your life
“Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything” – George B. Shaw. The more I speak about the Fourth Revolution, the more I consult in the field of organizational change, the more I … Continue reading
What we can learn from complex systems to understand today’s world
In this follow-up post on the topic of complexity (read “How the Fourth Revolution brings us from the complicated to the complex” if you’ve missed it), we’ll examine in the world that surrounds us, how complex systems behave, to take … Continue reading
How the Fourth Revolution brings us from the complicated to the complex
Complex is not the same as complicated. Industrial Age got us used to the complicated mindset. Collaborative Age is the the era of complexity. And here lies a fundamental difference overlooked and misunderstood by so many people. This is the … Continue reading
How crowd-knowledge dwarfs the obsolete institution of encyclopedia
This is the end of another institution that started with the Industrial Age: news spread a few days ago that the Encyclopedia Britannica stopped its printed edition, having sold only a few thousand copies per year in the last years. … Continue reading
100,000 people are ‘online game laborers’ today, and growing!
The Fourth Revolution also creates revenue opportunities for the citizens of emerging countries in more surprising ways than being service providers for commodity services that still require creativity and intellectual initiative. According to a World Bank report, the market of gaming-for-hire, … Continue reading
Another institution under siege from the Fourth Revolution: Universities. Will they reinvent themselves in time?
Two Google-related university teachers have just done a mindblowing experiment that overturns conventional university education. We know that the Fourth Revolution will overturn most institutions we’ve inherited from the Industrial Age. The latest to date: Universities. It’s still only a … Continue reading
How I hired an Argentinian designer for a job: my E-lance experience. Fourth Revolution in action!
I needed some graphical work done for my new book and I went online to try Elance.com, one of the networks of international freelancers (cf the post on “Today, the freelancing market is without borders. Did you realize it?“). I … Continue reading
Today, the freelancing market is without borders. Did you realize it?
Today, for relatively simple services (graphic design, translation, virtual assistant, all sorts of website development etc) that can almost be called commodity services, the market is… worldwide. You can hire easily, from your desk, a service provider at the end … Continue reading
What can we learn from Jonathan’s Starbucks card experiment?
Did you hear about Jonathan’s starbucks card experiment? It’s quite a simple experiment with deep learning in crowdfunding. Jonathan made his starbucks card available to anyone on the internet. Anyone could buy a coffee with it. And anyone could put … Continue reading
Gong Xi Fa Cai! To celebrate the Year of the Dragon, the Fourth Revolution is free on Kindle for another 48h!!
2012 – the Fourth Revolution year of the Dragon! After the tremendous success of the first Kindle promotion of the Fourth Revolution, to celebrate this new year – the Chinese new year, the Fourth Revolution book on Kindle is free … Continue reading
The Fourth Revolution wrecks the society in which it occurs
The title of this post is directly inspired by this quote: “The major advances in civilisation are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur” – Marshall Mc Luhan, in “The medium is the massage“, 1967 This … Continue reading
Facebook today is the internet of 2004
Do you believe things change quickly? Facebook, today, represents the same size than the entire internet network in 2004. And remember that Facebook service was launched in… February 2004! The internet itself has bloated dozens of times. 17 years ago, … Continue reading
When will governments finally realize that the interconnected economy is already here?
The world acts today as if governments still lived in the good ol’ days of powerful national economic policy. That’s just obsolete. The crisis in the Euro zone shows that economies are truly interconnected, even between continents. We know that … Continue reading
How the current financial turmoil is a positive indicator of the Fourth Revolution
The financial world is going through a storm. The balance of economy is shifting. What was not a problem before (sovereign debt) is a problem now. Developed economies are in turmoil. Manufacturing and utility companies suffer. Stock markets undergo shock … Continue reading
The Fourth Revolution book is #2 in Leadership bestsellers on Amazon.com Kindle store!
The Fourth Revolution book has been downloaded HUNDREDS of time already since the promotion for a FREE download has started. THANKS TO YOU, it has made it already to the #2 bestselling book on Amazon.com Kindle shop for Leadership – … Continue reading
For the new year, the Fourth Revolution for free on Kindle for 72h only! Happy New Year!
2012 will be a year of changes. Changes to the world, changes to you. 2012 will be the year of the Fourth Revolution. To celebrate this new year, the Fourth Revolution book on Kindle is free for 72 hours only! … Continue reading
This year’s 10 most popular Fourth Revolution Blog posts
At the time where we wish good bye to 2011 and we prepare ourselves for an exciting year 2012 ahead, I thought I would list the 10 most popular blog posts of the year for the Fourth Revolution Blog for … Continue reading
Multiple identities on internet: why debate? The trend is obvious!
Should multiple identities be allowed for a single individual on the internet? The debate rages. Facebook and Google+ try to force everyone to show a single identity. Still, since the beginning of internet, geeks often like to have different identities … Continue reading
A generation-driven Revolution is in the making!
In the same Facebook paper that describes how our world is much smaller than we thought, and is shrinking, there is another very interesting curve. The comment in the paper is mostly on the fact that we tend to connect … Continue reading