27 Dec, 2009
The Internet is Changing Everything! (Don’t be Obsolete)
Posted by: Investor In: Internet Marketing
Today businesses can do do more business with fewer employees and thus become more profitable. This will lead to more unemployment.
Are You Becoming Obsolete?
Dr. Buckminster Fuller once said that when change went invisible, the speed of that change would increase exponentially – a concept he termed in an article “accelerating acceleration“. An example he used was the rapid advance of aviation technology. Think about how amazingly fast flight technology has expanded in the past century. In 1903, the Wright Brothers flew the very first sustained airplane flight. In 1969, we put the first man on the moon. And now today, we have space shuttles that travel 7,743 miler per second and that will soon be capable of flying to Mars. That is an example of accelerating acceleration. Technology, and how that technology affects business, is changing at such a rapid place it is nearly impossible to keep up.
Dr. Fuller was concerned. His message was that soon millions of people would be out of work. They would be put out of work by technology and inventions that operated well outside their vision. As an example of what he was speaking of, he talked about the evolution from horses to automobiles. He said, “Humans could see the automobile. They could see that change. If a car came toward them, they could get out of the way”. Because they could see the car, they could adapt and make changes to their lives. But future inventions, he claimed, would be invisible. So humans would not see what was changing their lives. He finished his point by simply stating, “Humans are being run over by what they cannot see.”
Today, people are being run over and made obsolete by technological innovations they cannot see and that they do not understand. Unemployment is rising as people’s jobs are becoming obsolete; their skill set is no longer needed – often replaced by technology or outsourced to a nation with a cheaper labor pool.
The Internet is Changing Everything!
The Internet is bringing a shift to the world a million times more profound than Columbus discovering Americas in 1492. Just as explorers like Columbus opened the world to new wealth, the Internet is opening even larger worlds of wealth to today’s explorer.
Yet there is significant difference between Columbus and the Internet. People could see the changes that Columbus brought. They could see ships, cargoes of plundered wealth, and drawings of natives and their land. We cannot see the world of the Internet with our eyes. The world of Internet is invisible, and we have to see it with our minds. And that is why people are being left behind. They cannot see the changes that are remaking the world. In their blindness, they are becoming obsolete.
The Internet is changing everything. It’s one of the primary causes of people being left behind, causing unemployment to increase.
In today’s world, the need for speed is essential. We called it Business at high speed. Money evolved from barter to digital money as the world’s financial system picked up speed. Today, slow people are left behind. A well-positioned person can transact business 24/7. Rather than making money by the month, people can make money by the second.
