The Continuing Revolution:
I took a series of courses in the '70's from an astrophysicist, Andrew J Galambos, who really cleared up the past for me, and pointed the way to the future. For instance, he predicted the rise of the Internet, in detail, in 1973!. We, of course, did not believe him. (He died in the early '90s)
He proved to me that the real history of the world, and it's real future, was the controlled by the introduction of new ideas into the Civilization. He called Isaac Newton's publication of the Principia in 1683 the "Anchor Point of History", because it not only explained gravitation, but gave us the first three laws of motion. This integrated what was known in Physics to that time, and gave us the basis for all the inventions that came afterward. If you went into the home of any educated person in this country in 1776, you would have found two books for sure, the Bible, and a copy of the Principia.
The key invention of the Industrial Revolution was the steam engine and the "Killer App", of course, of the steam engine, was the Railroad. Although done empirically, the men who invented them, and everything else that came at that time, had a basic understanding of the first three laws of motion. You then add an understanding of electricity, all of its "killer apps" and move from there to the modern age.
Everything we invest in is tied to speed and information. The faster we move as a civilization, and the more knowledge we have; and the faster we move that knowledge, the wealthier we become. The cycle of a new business from start to high growth to stagnation and end is becoming faster and faster.
As we look to the future, we can pretty well pick out the technologies that will succeed. They are the ones that give us speed and information in the simplest possible way, and are the easiest to use.
The evolution of the G&K board is following the same pattern. We are getting more useful information, faster, simpler, and in an easier to use format. This is because we have hit upon the right structure, and are attracting the right people, who are willing to do the work and contribute to our common goal, because everybody involved benefits from it.
The G&K Board the most successful, worthwhile, committee
I have ever been on in my life!
This is a direct result, of course, of invention of the Internet. The G&K board is an example of one of the "Killer Apps" of the Internet.
So, where do we go from here? What do we watch for? The same things we are looking for right now, of course.
Oh…….there is one major discovery yet to come. There is one major unknown in the universe that has not been solved. The person who makes that discovery will be the most important person of the 21st century, and will cause a revolution beyond any we have yet seen. What is that discovery, and how will it be made?
Stay tuned, gentle reader, for my concluding chapter tomorrow!
LindyBill
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