Well, how do we now evolve into the wonderland of networked economies and societies? Is is via disruption and a sudden paradigm shift? I don’t think so. We will move gradually. That is, we will, for sure, open our walls to outsiders therefore making the membranes semipermeable: That will happen slowly. Of course there will be some early and fast adopters that benefit from their vision and but then there is the long tail of pragmatists, and skeptical, and slow adopters. They need guidance and a slow transition … Enterprise Software, maybe an enterprise version of social software paradimgs and concepts.
Innovation has its own life-cycle. The transition of cultures and organizations will take some time, I bet.
This article, however, pictures a compelling future that has already begun but just for few of us ..
The Power Of Us:
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the wisdom of online crowds to predict the future
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“Networks are becoming the locus for innovation,” says Stanford University professor Walter W. Powell. “Firms are becoming much more porous and decentralized.”
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Ultimately, all this could point the way to a fundamental change in the way people work together. In 1968, ecologist Garrett Hardin popularized the notion of the tragedy of the commons. He noted that public resources, from pastures and national parks to air and water, inevitably get overused as people act in their own self-interest. It’s a different story in the Information Age, contends Dan Bricklin, co-creator of the pioneering PC software VisiCalc and president of consultant Software Garden Inc. in Newton Highlands, Mass. Instead, he says, there’s a cornucopia of the commons. That rich reward may be worth all the disruption we’ve seen and all the more still to come.
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