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Does Web 2.0 mean that IT matters more now than ever?

The Big (Bad) Picture! How ready are we??

Today Jamais Cascio wrote a post about The Big Picture where he paints a picture of the 6 main drivers behind the major development of the next 20 years. I am really looking forward to following posts in the issue. Climate Chaos Resource Collapse Catalytic Innovation Ubiquitous Transparency New Models of Development The Rise of [...]

Volvo IT blocks sites mentioning “social software”

When I was at Volvo IT (my former employer until 2000) for a meeting today, it became sadly clear that Volvo IT have entered further down the path of radical ignorance. I’ve heard about their strange firewall filters before stopping people from visiting web pages containing the phrases “IP telephony”, “sex” and “”games”. Apparently the [...]

Illusion of organizational control

The other day I started to read “Emergence” by my new favorite author Steven Johnson. Since I was very interested in complexity and emergence from a philosophy perspective first in the 80:s and then again in the 90:s it is a bit funny to revisit an area which seems to slowly picking up speed. As [...]