Future Here Now: On the Forefront

Your network tomorrow. Not like today.

Today I’m trying out a new category where I’m sharing concepts that I’m working on or….having trouble seeing clearly, because it’s farther out in the distance, and the dust in the metaphorical foreground, is getting in my way.  Or maybe it’s just my old eyes. Where are my glasses??

I thought that readers of this newsletter (1) might enjoy playing with that bleeding edge with me (wait…ow…) and (2) might be able to shed some light on something I’m not seeing or understanding.  “Bleeding edge” generates all sorts of nasty in search engine optimization, so we’re gonna go with something a little more gentle, until I can figure out something colorful but not so painful. Or creepy.

One of the questions I can never quite seem to answer is: Why do I have such resistance to the term “Network Era” to describe the emerging economic/social/cultural era that is following the Industrial Era. That’s the term a lot of writers are using.

But I hate it.  And I haven’t fully figured out why. 

I think par…