2. When the present determines the future, but the
approximate present does not approximately determine
the future.
Edward Lorenz
(1917 – 2008)
the butterfly effect
30. Western Union
internal memo,
1876
"This 'telephone' has too
many shortcomings to be
seriously considered as a
means of
communication. The
device is inherently of no
value to us.”
fear change
31. regulate
“…the Department of Commerce became worried that too many stations -- especially
amateur and experimental -- were making broadcasts intended for the general public, and,
effective December 1, 1921, adopted regulations which restricted public broadcasting
to stations which met the standards of a newly created broadcast service classification.”
US Early Radio History
– Thomas H. White
32. Film - 1915
The New York Times, from an interview with D. W. Griffith
“The time will come, and in less than 10 years, when the children
in the public schools will be taught practically everything by
moving pictures…Imagine a public library of the near future, for
instance. There will be long rows of boxes of pillars, properly
classified and indexed, of course. At each box a push button
and before each box a seat.”
dream
Some of us may not be used to doing this because we have be webmastering – or reacting
Some of us may not be used to doing this because we have be webmastering – or reacting
Information Supply Chain: A Unified Framework for Information-SharingShuang Sun and John YenPenn State University (2005Based, on traditional scm. I systematic way to map out understand: What to shareHow to share itWhen to shareHow to share
We mechanized and automatedEmailFaxDigital signsBooksSignsDataMeta data
IN our information evolutionInformation is faster but we could be slowerCan we sit back and let the information flow. Trust the information to do it’s job.You could help us do that by making the information supply chain solid and the management and maintenance of it less like art and more like science.Commoditized, repeatable, measureable modelsThe information moves fasterThere is more of itMake things fasterSend them fartherMove ourselves faster
Can we turn the org chart back around and get back to the origitnal visionAre we moving back to the more disintegrated “piece work model”Are we moving towards trees, and a flat or matrix management model
Can we turn the org chart back around and get back to the origitnal visionAre we moving back to the more disintegrated “piece work model”Are we moving towards trees, and a flat or matrix management model