In
1984, reporting the 40-year future history timeline of worldwide networking,
Norman
Macrae drawing on knowledge worker sages like Drucker and computer/net
futurists
including his son predicted we might find that people got lost in big brother
worlds
or
we might free ourselves from governments spending our money and large
organisations
wasting
our time and trust - to be
intrepreneurially free as well as socially respectful of the
expectations/needs
of the world’s poorest.
THE MACRAE TIMELINE
TODAY’S
BLOCKS TO FREEDOM
Governments & Big global organisations
have developed global accounting &
numbers performance in ways that is
Mathematically perfect to:
•Destroy trust knowledge workers need
to systemically multiply their productivities
•Penalise the long-term stakeholder,
eg the pensioner investor
•Cling opaquely to their old powers and
mutual vested interests
•Profit from systems that compound risks
and are needlessly increasing the desperation of the world’s poorest 2 billion The mathematics and maps
of living systems exist.
80% of value growth or
destruction now depends
on transparent
governance of trust-flows, but the
yet-to-come application
in powerful organisations may
be this decade’s final
examination for humanity
"Focusing exclusively on financial objectives distorts the structure of
{organisations]…andin ways
that ultimately jeopardise them. This is the most important business lesson of
the past decade.” (John
Kay)
lx 1984: few
people believed 2024’s comfort, ease, abolition of
crime and freedom of living styles achievable.
Moreover,
mankind very nearly didn’t. This is an examination of
why what
happened did, and what could have happened was
mercifully
avoided.
87 Inter-networking is the 3rd of the great
transport & freedom
revolutions
that has transformed society in the last 200 years,
(railways were
first, the automobile second). Networks were
bound to be the
most far-reaching because once infrastructure
is installed,
cost doesn’t depend on distance. BUT
all three
revolutions were opposed by those with great ruling power.
37 By 2005, the gap in income and
expectations between the rich
and poor nations was recognised to be
man’s most dangerous
problem