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Transition Model
Stephen Covey with his “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” [S.R. Covey 1992] contributed significantly to the theory and practice of personal development of people by describing how their habits evolve to greater level of effectiveness, given sufficient “internal … Continue reading
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Comparing the 1st and the 2nd Renaissance
What have we learnt so far? The 1st Renaissance was, and the 2nd Renaissance will be, turbulent times, times of change. The 1st Renaissance transitioned from the Middle Ages to modern time. During the Middle Ages human fate was thought … Continue reading
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Tagged change, communication, horizontal technology, society, software
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The War of the Worlds — 4. And the Winner is …
The table below has been constructed to summarize and highlight key differences in the traditional and the modern perspectives. Each pair of terms are not to be seen a binary “either – or”, but rather as the ends of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 3 T model, change, living systems, organizational biophysics, systems biology
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The War of The Worlds — 3. The Third Wave
The third wave of the industrial revolution started around the same time when modern physics challenged Newtonian rule. A new world view originated from a greater insight into the physical world — compared to the one that had existed before. … Continue reading
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Tagged 3W - the Governing Questions, communications technology, Conway's Law, Gödel, Heisenberg, horizontal technology, humanism, industrial revolution, management innovation, purposeful system, quantum physics, software as non-physical material, software infects industries, third industrial revolution, Turing
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The War of the Worlds — 2. The Traditional Industry
What we call the “traditional” industry today is the result of a major upheaval: the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution reduced the value contribution of labor in the world’s economies by shifting from craft to mechanization and automation. The scientific and … Continue reading
The War of the Worlds — or: How the Internet of Things Will Change Your World
Have you heard of the panic caused by Orson Welles’ radio broadcast of the Martian invasion? [audio http://ia600705.us.archive.org/12/items/TheWarOfTheWorlds-TheRemixProject/WarOfTheWorldsRemixEdition.mp3|bg=0x0000ff|righticon=0xff0000|align=left] The book “The War of the Worlds” by H. G. Wells was greeted with great interest in 1898, however, neither its publication nor the previous serialization … Continue reading
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Tagged colliding worlds, communities, new industry, new world, old world, self-organization, traditional industry
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The First Renaissance — 4: Initial Summary of Drivers Identified
The previous three post about the Renaissance gave some examplary evidence about epochal changes. In this first wrap-up about the First Renaissance in the following table we offer a condensed look at some of the technological and social drivers of … Continue reading
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The First Renaissance — 3: Changes in Communications
The previous post dealt with changes in society and arts. Hence, the impact of these artistic — and the consequential scientific — achievements would not have had such a rapid influence across different domains of human endeavor without the development … Continue reading
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Tagged broadcast, communication, media technologies, new spirituality, P2P, pencil & paper, printing
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The First Renaissance — 2: Changes in Society and Arts
The drivers mentioned in the last post as causing turmoil also influenced each other. The established — “God given” — order took particular offense with the new humanist thinking, which threatened the very foundation of church power. Two world views collided. … Continue reading
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The First Renaissance — 1
The Renaissance – translated to English “rebirth” – is the progressive, intellectual, and cultural epoch in the 14th-17th century starting in North Italy and spreading out to countries in central Europe. As early as 1550 Giorgio Vasari [Vasari 1550] coined the term … Continue reading
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Towards a 2nd Renaissance 