Chapter Five

Story Number Two

• In the beginning there were mainframes
• the world needed more than 10
  • and this led to mini-computers
• Then lots of cheap CPUs got connected
  • The once mighty mainframe lost a LOT of market share
• A New World emerged
  • Some call it the GKE
  • New Economy Independents

Law of Increasing Returns

• The GKE is driven by knowledge formation
• knowledge formation is driven by meta networks
• to accelerate the rate of knowledge formation for competitive advantage
• The market demands improvements in all aspects of computation

Disintermediation

• Getting the middle people out
• End of life time employment and commitment
• Business has down-sized, right-sized, perhaps cut too far
• Government is just starting the process
  • The White House
  • The Business Advisor
  • The House of Representatives

Three Reasons

• In a relationship world
  • Nobody between me & my wife
  • Can't afford to pay the middle people
  • People in Middle distort feedback
• Maximize evolutionary Competence
  • The world is changing too fast

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