Johnnie Moore wrote today:

All this inventive technology is being made available to just about anyone with a web connection. How does it compare for engagement and collaboration with anything inside the firewall of organisations? I’ve argued before that, over the last few years, the technological advantage has shifted massively away from companies to individuals. I think we may only have scratched the surface of the impact this will have.

Euan writes

On a daily basis I am reminded just how constrained people still working in corporate environments are compared to what is possible, and indeed easy and cheap, for me as a freelancer. This is not only in terms of technology but also in terms of use of time and productivity.

It is madness that we burden the clever people in our organisations in these ways and the bigger the organisation the worse it gets!

‘Specialisation may well have helped build industrial society – but its like grit in the wheel of the networked society’
writes John Thackara, these wrenching changes put great stress on industrial systems placing them into deep crisis as they struggle to adapt to the networked world.