''..We have experienced a huge "Gutenberg-scale" inflection point in the last ten years. The world has gone from connected to hyper-connected and from inter-connected to interdependent. This has been such a shift in degree that it has become a shift in kind.
The technological underpinnings of this inflection point are important to understand.
By the turn of the 21st Century, four major technologies had come together to create what I then called "the flat world platform."
For the first time, the personal computer allowed individuals to author their own content - words, data, images, spreadsheets, video -- in digital form - a form that could be manipulated in so many more ways than ever before. That was a fundamental breakthrough in how we create and share knowledge and information.
That happened to coincide with the explosion of the Internet that enabled me to send that content anywhere and the emergence of work-flow software that allowed me to collaborate with others on my content and their's anywhere.
That then coincided with the new ability to "search," which, thanks to Google, enabled me to search other people's content and for them to search mine, enhancing collaboration even further..''
The technological underpinnings of this inflection point are important to understand.
By the turn of the 21st Century, four major technologies had come together to create what I then called "the flat world platform."
For the first time, the personal computer allowed individuals to author their own content - words, data, images, spreadsheets, video -- in digital form - a form that could be manipulated in so many more ways than ever before. That was a fundamental breakthrough in how we create and share knowledge and information.
That happened to coincide with the explosion of the Internet that enabled me to send that content anywhere and the emergence of work-flow software that allowed me to collaborate with others on my content and their's anywhere.
That then coincided with the new ability to "search," which, thanks to Google, enabled me to search other people's content and for them to search mine, enhancing collaboration even further..''
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