The biggest challenge we will ever face is "managing to survive".
I am setting up to write a new book. In fact this is one which I started many years ago called "Managing to survive". But this manuscript will be an entirely new take on an old theme because the technologies we use today are so completely different to those of that era.
I propose to give you a taste of the ideas I am throwing around inside my mind, and onto the page, as I curate the content for this book. The last draft of this book led me to NASA or more specifically to the Shuttle Program. I went there because I had a warning for the crew on NASA Road One, in Houston, about some issues I believed that they were about to encounter. I wanted to be wrong but I was ultimately proven to be right when happen the Challenger exploded shortly after clearing the tower and heading down range. My theory told me that this disaster could not be avoided because it was built into the program and that fact could not be changed by my urging and pleading with management even though the key players agreed with me. Anyhow that is all in the past and what I want these riffs to focus on is the mid-term future [next 5 to 20 years]. So. I will start this new conversation by focussing in on the Internet.
The Internet is about to change in purpose and direction. This change will be so dramatic that it will not be recognisable to what we took for granted as recent as 2019. The big move will be from broadcasting data, voice, images, content, etc to the facilitation of interactive exchanges of ideas, theories, opinions, ideologies, etc. Being online will be a completely new experience [boosted by 5G technologies] and it will change the way you and your familial live life after 2021. The nearest parallel to what is about to happen to the Internet was the widespread adoption of the telephone to link people within a town, a region, a global footprint, or "out there" in Open Space. I sense that this new version of the Internet will be more like the telephone than we might ever have expected and that the forerunners to this move are well represented by Skype.
This new development of the Internet spells big trouble for established businesses like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and all those apps which look and work like Tik Tok. Online sales through Amazon will take a massive hit, as will the prospects for driverless transport, and any modern service that relies upon the Internet of things. The main reason all these services will stagnate is that new consumer-based technologies will move us on and leave these obsolete applications of the Internet behind.
For this opening gambit in this series: let me say that 5G technology will change the world in ways that have us focus on the real needs of consumers not on those of media, corporates, entertainment, health and fitness. banks, government, etc.
Richard
Managing to survive over the next 20 year will pose a massive challenge for everyone.
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