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Category Archives: Humankind Ages
Why Conventional Organizations Are Not Adaptable
The basics of the ability of decision-making in uncertain environment is “confidence in the people and the flexibility of systems“. That’s the feedback from decades of military wisdom. Did you realize that it is exactly the opposite of what large … Continue reading
Why the Fourth Revolution is the Era of the Exponential, and How this Changes Everything
The Fourth Revolution is the era of the exponential – whereas the Industrial Age was the era of linearity. And that changes everything in the way we live our life: the complexity of the products we use every day increases … Continue reading
Publishing A Book is Not Any More a One-Way Broadcast
If you are a e-book reader you might have noticed that you can type in your notes and share your text highlights with other readers, the world… and the publisher. Publishing a book is not any more a one-way broadcast. … Continue reading
Old Industrial Age Cliches Die Hard. Kill them Faster to Transform the Economy!
As I was travelling in France a few weeks ago I was repeatedly struck by how Old Industrial Age cliches die hard – and in particular in ‘developed’ countries. Trade unions claim that the country should be re-industrialized (poster on … Continue reading
The Hospital – another Institution that will not survive the Fourth Revolution without a deep transformation
The modern hospital is a Health Factory, and Institution of the Industrial Age. We seek there maximum effect of scale for producing a product called “health”. It is centralized, and even more so that the increasing complexity of modern healthcare, … 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
Stop disseminating the image of the factory worker as a representation of the economy!
Right now there are a lot of articles and communication in the media about employment and unemployment. I’m really struck how this topic is presented. Did you remark how much this communication is reinforcing the “Industrial Age” view of employment? … Continue reading
Solutions to the national debt crisis 2/2: reviewing our tax base
Our current tax base will soon be obsolete. It needs to be replaced by taxation of our new collaborative capabilities. During the Agricultural Age, tax was based on a share of the crops. When the Third Revolution came – which … Continue reading
The bureaucratic entanglement (part 1)
Bureaucracy is stifling entrepreneurship. While it looks like rampant redtape is there for all the good reasons, it is stifling bureaucratic companies to death. Entangled in their procedures they will one by one topple over. Open, fluid organizations based on … Continue reading
The 21st century enlightenment – the Fourth Revolution in action
Have a look at this very good video on the 21st century enlightenment by RSA. The approach is very much aligned with the Fourth Revolution concept and approach. It is also a very interesting view point on the need for … Continue reading
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Broadcasting power defined the institution of the Industrial Age
So many institutions of the Industrial Age were defined by their broadcasting power. They were defined by their specialized journal, their TV channel, their radio station. Broadcasting was expensive and complicated. It took institutions to do that. Institutions decided what … Continue reading
Perfectly acceptable institutions will become inappropriate beyond the Fourth Revolution
Slavery is unethical. It is a terrible mistake of humanity, an example of the dark side of man. Or at least that’s what our mindset of the Industrial Age tells us. But in the Agricultural Age, slavery was a perfectly … Continue reading
