The course of civilization demands us speed and courage to unravel what lies ahead, because important challenges are posed. Technology, the expanding middle class, creativity, entrepreneurship will be some of the columns that will nourish that near future.
The most surprising thing about the paradigm of information technology, however, is that it does not evolve towards its closure as a system, if not towards its opening as a multifaceted network. Its fundamental and indisputable qualities are its integrating nature, its tremendous complexity and its interconnection.
Information technology has acquired such disruptive speed that the relationship of forces in the world is being definitively modified. The strength of that “creative destruction” promotes a gigantic restructuring.
The men of the 21st century (as well as those of the Renaissance understood the importance of the printing press) seem determined to take advantage of this moment to foster the cooperation of ideas, with technology as a central vehicle.
Just as the industry took advantage of last Century´s reduction of transport and communication costs to organize in “value chains” (decentralizing the production of parts to the most competitive geografic location to assemble then the final product where appropriate), in the same way, that happens now with the production of services based on knowledge.
Networking allows each person and each country specializes in what they are experts in, what they naturally possess, and technology help us to identify those skills and hammer them out at their source.
Networking is to establish temporary groupings, linked by communication technologies, to share knowledge, costs, relationships, methods and access to markets.
We do not all know the same, we are not all effective in the same areas or have the same productive capabilities. Therefore, the challenge is complementation, generating the traces of a network with infinite possibilities.
