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Dear Zach, all revolutions are dead this is a new age with a new digital revolution. History teaches no lessons, Raj or no Raj we got to move on in this new world. Forget about the past, be a futurist, think of tomorrow the digital wave if for no reason other than self-interest, it is time to start believing in the digital revolution, our past is history our future only hope is graduating to a new kind of revolutionary thinking where we get unstuck from past and move on..
Even the smartest people have been known to get the wrong end of the futurology stick and have remained stuck in past. History is past time of rich academics!
In the digital world we need to fast forward our frame of mind otherwise we shall be left behind. The first time the Duke of Wellington saw the steam locomotive, he sniffed: I see no reason to suppose that these machines will ever force themselves into general use. Alexander Graham Bell believed the telephone would be a device for the upper classes, offered to the public in a limited number of locations. The idea of a world in which millions could call each other across the globe would have struck him as ridiculous.
The digital age, however, is bigger, bolder and more revolutionary than any Stephenson's Rocket or Bakelite handset. Baffled by the jargon? Infuriated by the technology? So are most of us, but these are early days. Before long the digital era will be as simple and as pervasive as the telephone and television set of today.
The real problem is an intellectual one. Revolutions happen invisibly to those in their midst. The mobs storming the Bastille in 1789 didn't have regicide on their minds, yet four years later Louis XVI was dead. Seventeen months after that, Robespierre followed him to the guillotine and France was changed for ever.
There is a harsh lesson for us all there. Revolutions, digital or otherwise, happen in spite of ourselves. Either you're pulling the tumbrel or you're in it. |
