People in business and government often regard new social technology and networked culture as a dangerous 'new' thing and fall back on their experience of technology and organisational culture in the late Twentieth Century.
In fact the reverse is true. The Twentieth century took the ideas of the industrial revolution and applied them to people. Mass production. Mass marketing. Mass slaughter.
Our new cultural ecosystem is more traditional, and continues age old traditions of trade, business and socialisation. The Twentieth Century was wrong. And I will prove it. Using wild exaggeration and over-simplification, plus probably some pictures from Flickr... ;-)
Next time somebody tells you they don't like this "new" stuff, which is riskier than "traditional" approaches, you will know what to do: tell them they have it the wrong way round. But don't blame me if you get fired.
Understanding Discord NSFW Servers A Guide for Responsible Users.pdf
The Twentieth Century was Wrong
1. THE 20TH CENTURY WAS WRONG
... in one very important respect, namely the concept of people as mass
2. What really bugs me...
Some people see social technology and
networked culture as dangerous and “new”
They prefer the “proven” technology and
“safe” organisational culture of the
Twentieth Century.
I disagree
3. What did the C20th get Wrong?
The Twentieth century took the ideas of the
industrial revolution & applied them to people.
Mass production. Mass marketing. Massacre.
A century of extremes.
7. The Age of Nations and ‘ISMs’
Number of States in the World
200
150
100
50
1900
0
2000
Source: http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=108&subsecID=900003&contentID=252023
13. Mass(acre)
Abstract ideas and identities valued over human life
Processing people as objects - the logic of the camps
Two acts of genocide in the final 8 years of the century
26. Management vs Co-ordination
Millennium Challenge ’02 - biggest combined US military
exercise in the Gulf - took years to plan
Retired Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper defeated
the US military with a low-tech, traditional strategy
32. Next time...
Next time somebody tells you social networks
or network-centric business are new and
risky, tell them to read a history book
“Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it” - George Santayana