Awakening the Netcohort Nation

Before we get to more picturesque descriptions lets lay some ground work on where we seem to be now.

The first epoch of man was based in minerals; stone, bronze, and the iron ages.

If we accept that as a premise, we can view the second epoch as one of mechanical advantage which has lasted from Greek engineering, with some breaks, right up to the industrial revolution and the first vestiges of the bureaucratic age.

What we are calling the information age seems to be the final decorations on the bureaucratic age foolscap; we are applying the speed of information and system technologies to enhance the advantages of economies of scale.

The next epoch is upon us, but we have not yet comprehended it's realities. Picture the current epoch as as an orchard.

We have garnered most of the fruit and are now climbing to the tops of the trees looking to discover what else may be offered. Above the canopy we can see knowledge gained for great distances in any direction; fruit trees that have other seekers topping out and finding hidden treasures with new tools.

Almost a crossroads, we can look forward, right left and backward and see industry applied by technology enabled knowledge workers within the orchard.

The question - which direction can we travel to gain new meaning and value? Mankind is used to seeking new routes, but seldom raises his eyes and looks up. We must if we are to discover the next era.

Looking up we see a mist. There appear to be some irregularities in the low clouds and straining we can see what may be roots, and perhaps the shape of an unknown fruit - perhaps.

We will not be able to jump up to this new epoch, we need flexible teams constituted of a plethora of Archimedes to develop audaciously different tools appropriate to a new era. Their efforts will yield access to a new orchard with wonderfully diverse fruit.

Some of the fruit will reorganize society, some will create new methods of relating in business and education. the Netcohort society is there - we must find a way to bridge the gap.

If you think on what may come, you will discover new ideas and new insights well beyond our current reasoning.

"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it's done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen."
Robert A. Heinlein

Netcohort teams, teams of empowered individuals, will create this new age - the Netcohort Age.

This scroll presents the chinese character for optimism. It is a glyph that represents our hopes.

The bureaucratic age is fading. Creating "one size fits most" solutions was once the most profitable and most direct way of benefiting the greatest number. The "too bigs" of industry, education, unions, religions, government; in fact all institutions expanded based on one overriding axiom -- large size is more efficient.

The needs of the individual were pushed aside as the needs of mass society were addressed. Society and government became fused and concentrated on assimilating everyone into a collective hive of conformity. Approval was denied for challenging accepted ideas.

Conformity fits humans poorly.

"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it's done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen."
Robert A. Heinlein

Technology is helping us return to a simpler time. A time when natural enterprise, and individual initiative overcame inertia and eliminated plague and famine in much of the world. A time of visionaries attempting the impossible; and succeeding time after time.

It is now time to initiate direct action.

It is time to be aggressive at resolving the needs of others that are poorly served by huge, uncaring institutions. Great wonders have been created by individuals before. Find solutions by reinvigorating your own sense of wonder.

Join the Netcohort, become part of a team, let a little air out of the overinflated balloons of the past age. Each change to a more individualized process can be a positive change for humankind.

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