To: James Simonick who wrote (34092 ) 4/17/2000 11:21:00 AM From: txlenchs Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 40688
Thoughts on Zero Gravity and How it Applies to PNLK *** here's some emails I sent out this weekend. Hope you like it, they were 'instigated' by a Steve Harmon write-up on Zero Gravity I saw on RB.....PNLK correlation is at the end... START ******* Chris Commentary: I found this concept about Zero Gravity and the associated correlation to the use of the internet uncanningly similar to mine. If you wonder how/what the effect of the internet could...no, will be in/on the world, envision what this is saying. Harmon Start**** "From Interview with Steve Harmon by MSN Money: Last year, you wrote a book called "Zero Gravity." As you define it, zero gravity is essentially the ability for a company to operate purely in a digital environment. Can you illustrate the idea for us? The beauty of the Internet is that it enables digital communication and digital commerce. But most companies in the world do not use it for that function. Most companies are using the Internet as "brochure ware" -- as a pretty face to their offline business. To me, that's like having a birthday gift with nothing inside. Just a pretty wrapper. It's not using the box to house the real value, which is the gift inside. The gift inside the Internet is distribution. It is computing power. It is instantaneous global awareness. It is a flow of commerce and communications and community, things that never have to touch ground. For the past 200 years, our economic growth relied on the notion of burning petroleum products, coal, oil, gasoline or natural gas to produce things that consumers and businesses buy and use. What's going to fuel the next 200 years is information. So what is the fuel of information, and what is the conduit? The Internet is its own digital platform, its own digital world. It requires electricity. It requires information to be createdand disseminated. It requires software to be coded. It requires soft assets. In space, zero gravity means that astronauts can move up and down, sideways, anyway they want, and get things done in an entirely different way than they can on Earth. In the digital world, things move the same way. It's about being hyperlinked -- hypermovement, hypercommerce. It's no longer based on shipping goods and parts around the world via trains, planes or automobiles. Stocks with zero gravity" END OF HARMON CHRIS DIALOGUE START One thing he does kind of gloss over is the quote at the end. The internet may enable Zero Gravity, or as I have always called it "Dynamic Thought Pivoting", for an immense range of thought, academia, and business processes, but there are still many "end results" that will remain dependent on the Brick and Mortar world of commerce and logistics. Father in-law reply: (former President, COO of large company) >hi-chris--- That Zero gravity stuff sounds both exciting and boring at the same time. It really downplays the human element in commerce and business dealings . It takes the fun out of doing business. I don't know the technology seems to be moving at a faster pace than the human mind can comprehend. But thanks-I find this stuff interesting.. *** My Final Reply CONTAINS PNLK Correlation You're right dad. But also look at processes where the human interaction is not the major component. Like doing research for biotechnology or law or whatever. I look at it more from a 'thought process' than a business process in my mental model. Usually in todays world of research for research sake or for a component of a bus process, you will have to 'hold' your thought during the process so you can collect more data or information. Thru the intrenet and proper information disemmination and aggregation (this is the pulling or grouping together of information in logical hyperlinked context), you can immediately take your thought process into another direction or immediately get past that 'hold your thought' step since the next level of information is immediately available...bamm, I 'Dynamically Pivot' as controlled by my thoughts/thought process at any time...to explore a different level or avenue or to dispell or enrich a thought for the overall good of a specific thought within any given thought or business process. For the boring part, that is certaily true. But also think of the delays in current processes that it takes to get a RFQ or RFP from many different suppliers or sellers or buyers to ensure the best deal. Now they are readily available thru open Market Places where Buyers/Suppliers/Sellers exist and interact. It opens up so many opportunities to smaller companies that never even new many of these processes existed let alone how to get them completed in a timely, reliable and effective manner. The end result in many cases will still come down to human interaction, but more of the standard, ubiquitious components will be handled thru the internet medium. It just saves too much time and money and adds more in quality and opportunities not to be taken over by the internet. This is why I like PNLK so much. If you look at the Market Space they are attacking, it fits the mold of the internet very well. It is in a world or 'mystery and unknowns': "How do I deal with Russia vs Angola vs Peru when doing global trade? What forms/tariffs do I need, who can supply this, who can ship it, how much insurance do I need, for what areas, how can I ensure quality, how can I ensure proper credit or finanicail capabilities of the suppliers/sellers/buyers...how in the world does a little company from Omaha, Nebraska and one from La Paz, Bolivia overcome the inherent Unknowns and perceived 'hugeness' of Global Trade and Import and Export? The answer is PNLK...where all of the pieces of the global trade puzzle come together! END OF MY REPLY Hope it wasn't too boring....I think most on this thread understand the power of the internet and it's "Dynamic Thought Pivoting' capabilities. Best to all.....