There is a phase change approaching is the way human society is organized, flipping from centralized hierarchical organizations chiefly represented by the nation states, towards more efficient, flexible, and resilient forms of decentralized, peer-to-peer structures, the Network Society. What traditionally we thought were functions that could only be organized centrally, from energy production and distribution, manufacturing and food production, finance, education, health are now being radically rethought as the guiding principles behind the technological evolution of innovations such as the Internet are now pervading everything.
Not only a novel interpretation of ongoing changes, but also a guiding set of principles to evaluate the degree at which new ideas are well aligned with the these unstoppable developments, the lessons of the Network Society can inform the decisions of individuals, corporations and policymakers to design future-aware action plans navigating times of turbulent change.
61. Changing Dialog
Generation Bandwidth M2M Index
Industrial apps Kb/s 1%
Realtime Web Mb/s 10%
IoT Networks Gb/s 99%+
M2M index: M2M/M2H, communications among machine in proportion to those with humans
94. Kay Koplovitz, Founder USA Networks
“A billion people to have their own voice to contribute
to the dialog of the 21st Century, that is very empowering!”
110. Winning strategy – Jiro Ono
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sushi!
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Michelin 3-star restaurateur in Tokyo, protagonist of the documentary “Jiro Dreams of Sushi”
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112. Winning strategy – Richard Saul Wurman
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design!
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Architect, designer, author of over 80 books, coined “Information architecture”, and created TED
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114. The Privilege of Failure
“The formula for success?
Double your rate of failure.”
Thomas J. Watson, IBM
“The Internet multiplied a thousandfold our failure rate,
without increasing the cost of our success”
Cory Doctorow
125. NASA,Wikimedia
“… Our reality today is like technology based science fiction,
which can be used for good or bad:
usually ending up with a mixture of both.”
Kelly Starks