Thinking about the K Wave question: will the coming always-on world being brought to us by widespread broadband and wireless connectivity be the new factor of production that takes us out of the K-Wave Winter and starts the cycle anew?
A broader new factor is digitization, of which the always-on world is a subset. It may finally take us out of the 'paperless' office into a new paradigm where documents are not created with the intention to print but created for a pure digital existence. More generally it will spawn a vast collection of web services, which are machine to machine communications.
We have only so much attention time to give to always on communication, but our machines can talk to each other orders of magnitude more. They will allow the scaling of an information economy beyond the bounds of the prior analog world.
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