THE EMERGENCE OF EMERGENCE
Business Structures of the 21st Century Technological and Computational Conjuncture
Christopher Richard Wade Dettling (2019)
We live in the age of emergent business structures in the Asia Pacific region. This is a truism, for those who are regularly informed, via daily reports and comprehensive studies, seminars and conferences, especially as broadcast on the world wide web. In the search for new opportunities and higher profits, old ways of doing business are out of fashion. Twentieth–century ideas are outdated in the world of today: The news for instance. The news is very broad, there is news about everything. How does a company like Buzzfeed make money with the ferocious competition? The strategy of Fox, CNN and the other big players is evident for all whose eyes can see. In other words, the best ideas are already gone, evolved into a higher form. The best twentieth–century century ideas are already in usage by established media combines: Entrepreneurial businesses require new ideas in the Digital age. The good thing about business ideas is that they are ideas, and everybody has ideas, but not all ideas are the good ones, — those require business acumen. Thankfully, the world of today is overflowing with business talent and the ability to turn innovative ideas into new profits: Money makes the world go around. Still, there is a real lack of ideas, considering the vast accumulation of new information.
One reason for the penury of new ideas, and new profits, is the very nature of the Digital revolution: Unlike the Industrial revolution, whose origins lie far behind us, our revolutionary age is not yet done. Twenty–first century ideas are still in the making, and this is no small point. The creation of new ideas requires new ways of thinking. As most people are aware, new ideas come into conflict with older, more established ones. The Digital revolution during the first decade of the century is slowly sweeping across the earth, and is bringing in its wake new modes of thinking. Few will dispute this new turn of events: Thinking, in the world of today, is nearly impotent without machines. And this is not merely a question of scientific research and computer programming, but first and foremost a question of the Global dissemination of information. Obviously the Global dissemination of information requires powerful supercomputers and vast telecommunications networks. But the technological and computational dimension of the dissemination of the information is not itself in question. In the Global dissemination of information, the trouble arises with the distribution and consumption of knowledge. Who is not profoundly amazed by the massive quantities of information that circulate around the world on a daily basis? A vast percentage of this innovative power probably has absolutely no financial, commercial and industrial utility whatsoever, but not because of its uselessness, — rather we have an historical bottleneck. This is where the challenge arises: How much profitable information is basically lying around dead, merely because of our archaic, twentieth–century methodologies of consumption?
This is where our emergent business structures of the twenty–first century technological and computational conjuncture will thrive.
The solution to the vexing problem of “dead information” is undoubtedly the next phase of the Digital revolution, the creation of machines that consume our information, and produce knowledge for our tailor–made requirements. In other words, artificial intelligence is on the horizon. With artificial intelligence comes new ways of thinking with machines, and from thence comes new business ideas. These creations are yet in embryonic form, and before they see the light of day, a momentous struggle must unfold: Powerful ideas release great tensions. The axiom is self–evident: Whosoever controls the most powerful machines also controls the world.
This is the very essence of twenty–first century American Idealism, — the birth pangs of which are found in the reorganization of the American world. The question naturally arises, How then are these world historical tensions best managed? The answer is no mere sleight of hand: With ever–more powerful machines and new ways of thinking.
To Be Continued …
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