If we do not
understand how change has happened in the past, or take a partial or limited
view of it, we may be no better at working out recent developments.
When it comes
to the future, therefore, we could all be failing to see or badly in error as
to what could or will happen.
This article about a future comes from
The Engineer and deals with cloud based design and innovation in automation and
aerospace. It is a something few of us
are familiar with and can even grasp.
Try explaining the implications to the average journalist or politician.
Quote:
“Something is
happening. You can take every single industry sub-segment. This phenomenon is
happening, which means a new level of performability for newcomers to become
world players with very small numbers of people.
“These new
teams are creating things never seen before. They are turning things upside
down. It’s not the extrapolation of what happened in the past… it’s something
very different.”
Unquote.
One feature
that is striking is how few people can now do so much so quickly. This kind of design and engineering work at
one time would have involved office blocks filled with people, specialist
managers and a number of layers in the organisation.
On a personal
level, doing things at home, there are times when I realise that I have dealt
with something in minutes that once might have taken hours or days.
Must go, am
waiting on deliveries, it is a pity all those shops have gone.
Interesting article. Whenever I read this kind of thing I enjoy the optimism and sense of adventure but a cynic at the back of my mind wonders how much of it is hype.
ReplyDeleteThe future is a plethora of devices that are profitably complex and which the 'aging population' can't/won't use.
ReplyDeletethe assorted rulers of the world - e.g. google and large banks change the rules every so often to the bafflement and cost of the h0i poloi.
Not to worry =the power to serve these devises with become exorbitant and intermittent.
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