Friday, September 23, 2011

Revolutionary Discombobulation

The world is a mess. Nothing is going right. Nothing is going as it did, as it should, as we expect it to. It seems that the very foundations on which the different components of our lives rest have shifted, and give us no secure footing to stand on.

It doesn't just seem that way, they have!

Given the chaotic times we are experiencing, we tend to forget that we are only a decade or so into what was long heralded as the coming Information Revolution.

It came!

What we are experiencing is total cultural revolution around the world. Yep, it came, and it isn't going to be ending for quite some time. So, as they say, get over it!

Look back at the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution and you will see slower paced, but just as substantial, change. The world survived that one quite well over all, as it proved to provide better lives for far more people than it damaged.

With any luck, if we survive it, this one will too.

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