Network competences which people of 2005 would need, seen from 1984
Most of this month will share extracts from a 20 year old book on why networks were going to prove the globally most testing revolution human beings have so far discovered, at least as co-author I hoped so as the bad scenario was that Orwell's 84 vision of technology in a power-greedy few would turn out correct (just 40 years out as a timeline)To give two specific examples of where the book hoped we would be now:
Debating 30000 projects to end global poverty
Teaching 12th grade email as the the networking age's "way ahead" to find your own 10 best mentors through life and help others do the same
As writers and journalists whose families had been in the British Raj and in one case tried to help constitutionally ease its passage to better futures for all peoples, we also held some strong views, salient to bring to the table now:
SAD NEWS
We must design transparent networks where all 6 billion people trust that none of us is as strong as all of us. Our families note from direct historical experinces of governments that the British Empire ended with mistakes that have compounded corruption in many poor places. We hope that the 21st Century will grow up from its first years with people everywhere asking isnt it time to quench evil and opaque structures before they quench more than a billion beings whose abject poverty involves being without enough food or water?
GLAD NEWS
Rejoice: the world's most powerful searcher has declared interdependence 30 billion dollar 'do no evil' leader of organisations, and we ask that journalists and stars for humanity try to get the BBC's World Service to rediscover a similar DNA. Google & BBC can start a global media revolution promoting reality before imagery, trust relationships before speculative greed.
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