Difference between revisions of "Scenario 2- The power of the crowds"
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<b>State of the world in 2030</b><br> | |||
Today all pieces of technology are what we used to call in the past user friendly. We managed in the 2020a to make technology adapt to peoples needs rather than the other way around. In the previous times we had user manuals for software programs, appliances and other different sort of electronics. Nowadays everything, and I mean everything! is intuitive. If it would be to choose two words to define todays world, those would be standardization and simplicity. <br><br> | |||
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What pushed us towards here is however the standardization of cloud computing. This step cupeled with the pressure coming from limited resources also open the door towards the standardization of different sort of widgets (mobile devices). These two events harnessed humans capabilities of communication in groups. In 2010 project managers were saying that if you bring some more IT engineers in the last phase of a project with a close by dead line - the only sure result is that youll exceed the dead line. Bigger groups were not equivalent with better and faster work. Because groups did not have the ability to take advantage of their collective intelligence (see research answers). Nowadays the tools we managed to create starting 2020 allow us to maximize the collective intelligence of a group - no matter how big.<br> | |||
All tools interconnected enabled users to communicate on-line just as easy as they were doing it off-line. The very famous theory from the 21st century regarding 6 degrees of separation is not available anymore. Almost everybody is one click away.<br> | |||
- Consumer groups emerge, and have power <br> | - Consumer groups emerge, and have power <br> | ||
- Innovation specialist groups converge <br> | - Innovation specialist groups converge <br> | ||