Sunday, July 15, 2007

Fischbowl: Shift Happens, Did You Know (Version 2.0)?

``Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.”-Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German Philosopher

Major developments unravel at the margin.

The following YOU TUBE presentation by Karl Fisch of Arapahoe High School together with Scott Mcleod of Dangerously Irrelevant blogspot, succinctly depicts of the ongoing seismic “exponential” technology-enabled growth transforming the world today.

As Nassim Nicolas Taleb wrote in his “Black Swan, The Impact of the Highly Improbable”, ``History and societies do not crawl. They make jumps. They go from fracture to fracture with a few vibrations in between. Yet we (and historians) like to believe in the predictable, small incremental progression.”

Apparently because of the lack of sensation, mainstream media hardly covers on such trends.

While we don’t write to convince skeptics, especially those who have been “tunneled” towards mainstream media and IVY league personalities as their only ACCEPTED sources of information, eye-opening books like Thomas Friedman’s “World is Flat”, Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s “Revolutionary Wealth” and to the extreme futurist Ray Kurzweil “The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology” have elaborated deeply on these evolving trends at varying degrees.

According to analyst John Mauldin ``I think that we underestimate the accelerating pace of change we are going to see in the next 15 to 20 years. We will see more change in the coming decade than we saw all of last century. Think back just 20 years and realize how much things have changed. Then double that pace through 2020. The opportunities and displacement are going to be huge.”

Likewise, we believe that the drive towards the Phisix 10,000 would be underpinned mostly by these defining transformations.

Watch and Learn!


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