How many times in your career have you bet your livelihood on a prediction? Back in the early-1990's did you foresee the coming Internet boom? Sure, many of us make a living by advising clients on how technology is going to impact their businesses, but few extend their advice to predict how the technology of the future will impact those very same businesses. Controversial analysts Nicholas Carr and Christopher Meyer offer their theories and predictions on the implications for business after everything is connected.
Nicholas Carr believes that we can learn from the history of the evolution of the electric power industry, and lessons learned can be applied to the future network. Carr draws from the research he completed for his new book, "The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google." While he admits that IT is different than electricity as a technology, he believes they are comparable from an economic perspective. For Carr, the current fascination with Web 2.0 is too narrow and misleading, and true innovation will only occur after we figure out what to do with the abundant computing power that will soon be available.
Chris Meyers suggests that the world wide web will not change everything, and asks provocativley "what doesn't change?" To answer, he draws upon his latest book "It's Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business." He sees the coming changes blurring the lines between what is "inside" the organization and what is "outside". This will lead to profound changes in the organization that will significantly impact business as we know it.
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