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The End of the Information Revolution

Posted March 30, 2005 | Leadership | Leadership |

Much of what we think about is shaped by the metaphors we use to comprehend the world. Way back in 1984, Michael Porter suggested that we had entered an "information revolution," but that viewpoint misses the forest for the trees. Information per se is not the issue. What people are doing with the information and how they are applying IT are more important than the information itself.

About The Author
Stowe Boyd
Futurist, researcher, and writer. Stowe Boyd leads Work Futures, an exploration of critical themes of the ecology of work, and the anthropology of the future. He coined the terms “hashtag,” “social tools,” “work management,” and “publicy.” Mr. Boyd has worked with dozens of companies in the past decades, including Microsoft, Google, IBM, and many startups. Earlier, he was a computer science researcher/educator, led a software startup, and… Read More
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