Onward to the information Age
Aaron Wilmot
April 22, 2008
I recently read an interesting book entitled 'The Sovereign Individual'.
I wanted to read it because Robert Kiysaki had listed it as an influential or important book in one of his own books. One of the authors was Lord Reese-Mogg, who specializes in global strategic investments and predictions
that can affect how to invest now with various trends in mind. One of his main points in the book is that there tends to be a major shift every 500 years or so in Western civilization.
For example, the year 1492 marks the official beginning of the industrial age, thus ending the feudal age, according to many historians. Some 500 years later, in 1992, the world wide web went wide, marking the beginning of the information age and the end of the industrial age.
According to Mogg, this shift will be more pronounced even than the shift to the agrarian or industrial age. This is because microprocessing will have a more fundamnetal impact on human society as a whole, over time. He says that by the year 2050 or so the world will look much different than
it does today, as many industrial age institutions either fade away or are severely modified. The impact of all this is debatable, but Mogg says big changes are inevitable. Just as the changes made from the invention of the printing press during the industrial age could not really be stopped once the genie was out of the bottle,
so too will the changes from microprocessing and a wireless world be. It is already happening, of course. Mogg and his co-author made the fascinating point that, during the beginning stages of these types of great shifts, those on the cusp (as we are now and the Europeans of 1492 were) rarely know what is happening,or just how dramatic the shift is going be.
At the time the first printing press was invented, for instance, the church had a virtual monopoly on printing and binding books, including the Bible. It was a labor intensive craft at that time would took a high level of skill. Few people really understood at the time the full ramifications of this invention in not only ushering in the end of the dominance by the church but also the positive impact
of having books available for the first time to the masses. Literacy shot up and very soon industrial manuals and standards could be codified and made uniform in many different localities. A factory that made an industrial product in England, for example, could quickly be duplicated in France, Holland or Germany in a uniform way. Instruction manuals could be easily made universal for the first time. More information age news at the MPC Internet News Blog
The pace of growth soon skyrocketed. By the the late eighteenth century the standard of living of most of the advanced industrial nations shot up exponentially. For the first time unskilled labor could move to the cities and earn a wage above the normal subsistance level so common in the agrarian-fuedal area. The Feudal era was dominated by guilds, in which a relatively small number of highly skilled individuals dominated crafts such as shoe-making and
commanded large earnings while the majority of people, peasant farmers as they were, earned a rather minimal living. Suddenly unskilled workers could go to work in a factory and actually earn a surplus. Large quantities of goods became available. General prosperity and an increased standard of living soon followed. One thing that can do is join an information age business. I recommend a Freelife Home Business They are a global company.
I wanted to read it because Robert Kiysaki had listed it as an influential or important book in one of his own books. One of the authors was Lord Reese-Mogg, who specializes in global strategic investments and predictions
that can affect how to invest now with various trends in mind. One of his main points in the book is that there tends to be a major shift every 500 years or so in Western civilization.
For example, the year 1492 marks the official beginning of the industrial age, thus ending the feudal age, according to many historians. Some 500 years later, in 1992, the world wide web went wide, marking the beginning of the information age and the end of the industrial age.
According to Mogg, this shift will be more pronounced even than the shift to the agrarian or industrial age. This is because microprocessing will have a more fundamnetal impact on human society as a whole, over time. He says that by the year 2050 or so the world will look much different than
it does today, as many industrial age institutions either fade away or are severely modified. The impact of all this is debatable, but Mogg says big changes are inevitable. Just as the changes made from the invention of the printing press during the industrial age could not really be stopped once the genie was out of the bottle,
so too will the changes from microprocessing and a wireless world be. It is already happening, of course. Mogg and his co-author made the fascinating point that, during the beginning stages of these types of great shifts, those on the cusp (as we are now and the Europeans of 1492 were) rarely know what is happening,or just how dramatic the shift is going be.
At the time the first printing press was invented, for instance, the church had a virtual monopoly on printing and binding books, including the Bible. It was a labor intensive craft at that time would took a high level of skill. Few people really understood at the time the full ramifications of this invention in not only ushering in the end of the dominance by the church but also the positive impact
of having books available for the first time to the masses. Literacy shot up and very soon industrial manuals and standards could be codified and made uniform in many different localities. A factory that made an industrial product in England, for example, could quickly be duplicated in France, Holland or Germany in a uniform way. Instruction manuals could be easily made universal for the first time. More information age news at the MPC Internet News Blog
The pace of growth soon skyrocketed. By the the late eighteenth century the standard of living of most of the advanced industrial nations shot up exponentially. For the first time unskilled labor could move to the cities and earn a wage above the normal subsistance level so common in the agrarian-fuedal area. The Feudal era was dominated by guilds, in which a relatively small number of highly skilled individuals dominated crafts such as shoe-making and
commanded large earnings while the majority of people, peasant farmers as they were, earned a rather minimal living. Suddenly unskilled workers could go to work in a factory and actually earn a surplus. Large quantities of goods became available. General prosperity and an increased standard of living soon followed. One thing that can do is join an information age business. I recommend a Freelife Home Business They are a global company.
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