cyborg – R&A IT Strategy & Architecture

Gossip, Trust and the Information Revolution (‘value’ vs. ‘values’)

Posted by gctwnlon March 4, 2020July 14, 2021in Extended Humans, Gossip versus Ratio, Information Revolution, Information Revolution 47 Comments

Our massive use of IT (the information revolution with its information inertia and its fast but stupid behaviour) is enabling our innate behaviour to surge against our learned behaviour and that is severely damaging the social structures we humans have created. Why is this happening and what can we do about it?

IT is us

Posted by gctwnlon February 28, 2020July 14, 2021in Extended Humans, Information Revolution, Information Revolution 310 Comments

The amount of IT we have brought in the world is turning the human species into something 'extended'. IT has behaviour and as such is an amplifier of our intentions. IT is us, it is inseparable from us. What culture does your organisation's IT embody?