Tweet The future should be networked writes Jeremy Rifkin in The Third Industrial Revolution. He sees the next industrial age, one bridging industrialism to continental collaboration as the most feasible post-carbon future. The oil business is one of the largest industries in the world. MORE >>

It is a user-aware system that provides opportunities to learn, and build skills – as they are needed. With this information tagged on the content, the system can precisely suggest content appropriate for a sales rep selling a specific product line, within a specific geography. Personalization for the high-skill knowledge worker. MORE >>

Our main constraints are our artificial structures, especially our schooling systems. Much as we no longer need the majority of the population to grow crops, we no longer need a large workforce of widget makers or data processers. Standardized work, that can be done by many, is low value in the network era. You know the type. MORE >>

Dr. Arthur is external professor at the Santa Fe Institute and visiting researcher at PARC’s Intelligent Systems Lab. Digitization is creating a second economy that’s vast, automatic, and invisible - thereby bringing the biggest change since the Industrial Revolution,” he writes at the very beginning of the article.  he asks.  MORE >>

For the IT industry, a new computing model is a very big deal.  In the fifty years or so since there as been an IT industry, this would be only the third such model, centralized and client-server computing being the two previous ones. Different departments could buy their own systems.  What characterizes a computing model?  MORE >>