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This PA-approach presented here, competes in the mind of solution seeking non-believers with nice-sounding trendy simplifications such as Kevin Kellys's "New rules for the new economy (10 ways the network economy is changing everything): The new economy is about communication not computers. Consuming is overcome by pure (c3-)prosumimg encouraged by four goals: To create, remember, anticipate and change what the customer wants. Each goal is claimed to elevate the organization's commitment to the customer and raising the customer’s involvement with the organization. What about the key customer, the share holder, and those supposedly 370 people who control it all, that one who wants to conquer and override it all in his image with money, steel, concrete, genetically manipulated clones, polluted environment, confused minds etc.. What about
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the world in which 66 human beings and 310 robots "live" of producing 300 Lexus sedans each day, |
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while others cut their olive trees to be able to cook their food lacking any other perspective than immediate survival and |
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some who try to network it all lacking the courage to discern c3 and C3 just amplifying trends into their globalization |
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lacking what it takes to overcome thinking catastrophes before they turn into human catastrophes. |
Some few and powerful in a worldly sense still want to maintain level 1+2 simplifications, today with high tech, while pushing more and more people into the level 3 trap, blocking them from going beyond with the projected attractiveness of level one, basically nirvana in which one admires the emperor's pain free new cloth in usurped abundance and patient boredom that makes the confined level 1-3 in fact hell on earth that even by Asimovs' robots cannot be overcome; the perfect sanctuary from evading C3!
The new economy's chief hipsters, such as Kelly and other self-appointed trend speakers try to get fame by formulating the rules by which the world operates, in Kelly's case how the wired; if fashionable it could also be the Tuesday afternoons' world. It does not matter whether the result are dizzying or confusing, the main focus is on the human attention, seemingly the last scarce desirable resources in a world where everything else seems to be produce able for less and less money.
Kelly writes: "Communication is the foundation of society, of our culture, of our humanity, of our own individual identity, and of all economic systems. This is why networks are such a big deal. Communication is so close to culture and society itself that the effects of technologizing it are beyond the scale of a mere industrial-sector cycle. Communication, and its ally computers, is a special case in economic history. Not because it happens to be the fashionable leading business sector of our day, but because its cultural, technological, and conceptual impacts reverberate at the root of our lives." This is about as blunt a declaration of war of c3 against C3 as you can imagine!
He has also written Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization (1994), in which he suggests that the same principles that govern biological systems can, should, and will be applied to technical systems and information networks. He now takes the next step to show how those c3-networks will drive the economyThus the current World Wide Web is presented as the role model for the entire world, replacing C3...
This model makes the world a place where through L62=level 6 stage 2, power multiplies through connections, maintaining the network is crucial, change is constant, and even successful innovations are quickly left behind - and insisting that we must accept risk and act boldly to maintain it with L61; of course without telling you the full story outlined above...
Kelly points out that the possibilities are tremendous, for we are "about to witness an explosion of entities built on relationships and technology that will rival the early days of life on Earth in their variety." Do you need more proof for whose spirit Kelly is the mouthpiece of? In his new alchemy of the future, it is abundance, not scarcity, connectivity not integrity that creates value.
The genuinely academically established fact is that life stems from its coherent uniqueness, and not as educational omnivores imply, from a lack of integrity. To pretend otherwise might show evidence of having read some serious work in technological forecasting but evidence, too, of not having read deeply on the subject and above all for not understanding what life is. To be intellectually and professionally in the center of the transformation of our economy from the industrial to the informational age does not mean one understands what is really going on. Similarly the Pharisees were at the center of power play at their time, having read it all, yet having understood nothing that really mattered. Kelly's creativity is expressed in a crescendo of thought provoking statements culminating in the last chapter of the book with his 10th rule "Opportunities before efficiencies - think of opportunities not problems to be solved to create innovation" exposes his leaning towards black art and obscures his personal identity, as if he had no personality other than riding the trend such as when he talks about a lettuce head with a disposable computer chip attached to its stem, so that the price displayed varies as the lettuce ages and as goes the exchange rate of the Mexican peso. Thus suggesting tricks and strategies, without providing any bases except well-voiced opinions is his strategy in a thus competitive market of pseudo* intellectuals who nurture action oriented managers of quick and frequent trials and errors, betting that the success of some of them will, by far, offset the failure of most of them, which of course reflects the prevailing stock exchange mentality.
Kelly's ten principles that suggest how to use technology to shape the economy which now shapes life seems to be putting global responsibility in the reader's hand who are into increasing their connections aiming for global power via global attention - would it not remind us to Luke 4, 6-7.
*making no effort
to demonstrate that their opinions shared and sold as wisdom or visions are
right in a meaningful way thus