Arthur Hanson
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The semi/nanotech sectors greatest gift is a set of business models and tools that have taken the constant acceleration of accumulation, application and distribution of knowledge to be applied around the world at rate that is picking up speed at a rate so frantic we have to devise totally new social, political, educational and business models if we hope to keep up with it. The time from theory of new knowledge to its application has been shrunk so dramatically that are current systems are in disarray to the point that the dangers are as great as the benefits.
The new ecosystems that are a combination of the cloud, platform and foundry models combined with the ethos of FBC (faster, better, cheaper) have shown the power to radically reduce time to market, increase functionality and lower cost to the point the danger is obsolescence well before it's useful life is over. This applies not only to the products and services we use, but our skill sets. We are entering an age when many of the sectors of the economy that have refused to keep up with these changes and serve more than ever the special interests that cling to the past. Medical, military, law enforcement, governments and education are among the sectors that have not kept up with this disruption and acceleration of obsolescence.
To take full advantage of what the semi/nanotech sector is enabling will take a vast increase in the subscription model to fully utilize material objects, skill sets and social/political structures and keep up to date. The days of the fixed skill set with occasional refreshers is on its last legs and becoming obsolete. Albert Einstein fully understood this when he said "Never memorize anything you can look up". This will soon become true even applying knowledge and the mantra will become "Never learn the base knowledge, when a platform can be used to achieve the same result" This will allow the very finest minds to leverage their knowledge to thousands rather than applying it themselves as a individual. They can specialize in building platforms to constantly increase the functionality of the platforms, increasing the time to application of any knowledge, while preventing huge investments by thousands or more that waste resources on skills sets that have an ever decreasing half life.
We are already in a world accelerating so fast, the old models are failing miserably, causing untold suffering, waste with extensive personal and environmental damage. It is only if we as a society are willing to make the changes to adapt to what the semi/nanotech sector has wrought that we will fully benefit from them.
This will be the first in a series in which I will explore different facets of this greatest revolution in the history of man.
The new ecosystems that are a combination of the cloud, platform and foundry models combined with the ethos of FBC (faster, better, cheaper) have shown the power to radically reduce time to market, increase functionality and lower cost to the point the danger is obsolescence well before it's useful life is over. This applies not only to the products and services we use, but our skill sets. We are entering an age when many of the sectors of the economy that have refused to keep up with these changes and serve more than ever the special interests that cling to the past. Medical, military, law enforcement, governments and education are among the sectors that have not kept up with this disruption and acceleration of obsolescence.
To take full advantage of what the semi/nanotech sector is enabling will take a vast increase in the subscription model to fully utilize material objects, skill sets and social/political structures and keep up to date. The days of the fixed skill set with occasional refreshers is on its last legs and becoming obsolete. Albert Einstein fully understood this when he said "Never memorize anything you can look up". This will soon become true even applying knowledge and the mantra will become "Never learn the base knowledge, when a platform can be used to achieve the same result" This will allow the very finest minds to leverage their knowledge to thousands rather than applying it themselves as a individual. They can specialize in building platforms to constantly increase the functionality of the platforms, increasing the time to application of any knowledge, while preventing huge investments by thousands or more that waste resources on skills sets that have an ever decreasing half life.
We are already in a world accelerating so fast, the old models are failing miserably, causing untold suffering, waste with extensive personal and environmental damage. It is only if we as a society are willing to make the changes to adapt to what the semi/nanotech sector has wrought that we will fully benefit from them.
This will be the first in a series in which I will explore different facets of this greatest revolution in the history of man.
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