Notes from Global Paradox bye John Naisbitt - 1994

"The bigger the world economy,the more powerful its smallest players." (p.12)

The ODD effect: outsourcing, delayiing, deconstruction (p.16)

"Tribalism is the belief in fidelity to one's own kind, defined by ethnicity, language, culture,religon, or, this late 20th century, profession. And this belief is flourishing." (p.24)

The old addage: Think Globally, Act Locally should be flipped to Think Locally, Act Globally (p.24)

The telecommunications revolution has four big ideas -- (p.53-54)

• The blending of technology

• Strategic Alliances

• Creating a Global Network

• Personal telecomputers for everyone

"This network of networks is often referred to these days as an information super highway. Ths is not a good analogy. What is being put together now is a patchwork of local networks. It is beingbuilt from the bottom up in the marketplace. Superhighway has echoes of large scale command and control systems (like the old Interstate system that had federal plans and standards and 90/10 matching grants and federal overseers). The networks are emerging;no one is in charge. The super highway metaphor is a huge step backwards just as we are entering the age of distributed systems. In time it will come to stand for what is really happening. In the meantine it is not a helpful analogy" (p.54)