There is a new paradigm shift… are you ready?
Are we prepared for this next paradigm shift? Are you ready to keep up with this new Age?
Hey,
Usually, I email you with exciting new productivity tips or hacks….
…. this time I really need to explain something important to you.
And I want to use a quote from Peter Drucker for this:
“In a few hundred years, when the history of our time is written, it is likely that the most important event those historians will see is not technology, not the internet, not e-commerce. It’s an unprecedented change in the human condition.
For the first time substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time they will have to manage themselves.
And society is totally unprepared for it.”
To understand this, as Stephen Covey explains in The 8th Habit, we need to look at the 5 stages of civilization.
Hunter/Gatherer Age – Agricultural Age – Industrial Age – Information Age – Wisdom Age.
During the ages, we have seen 4 paradigm shifts already. Every time their impact increased exponentially, and the time in between these shifts dramatically shortened.
Let’s look at this…
Farmers were 50 times more productive than Hunter/Gatherers and gave birth to the Agricultural Age. Hunter/Gatherers disappeared…
When machines and capital became available, everything became industrialized, including agriculture. The Industrial Age started; small farmers disappeared…
(Only 3% of the US population are farmers now and they produce more food than needed so part is exported to other countries.)
In the 20th century we shifted into the Information Age and thanks to the explosion of software development, productivity increased again. Exponentially much more and faster than during the previous shifts.
You’ve also noticed that it took many generations (a few hundred years) from Hunter/Gatherer to Agriculture. And again a few centuries to evolve from the Agricultural Age into the Industrial Age.
It was less than 100 years from the Industrial Age to Information Age.
We already see the next shift happening, right in front of our eyes, with yet again an enormous increase required in productivity, less than 50 years after the Information Age started.
This paradigm shift is NOW!
Are we prepared for this next paradigm shift? Are you ready to keep up with this new Age?
I’m working on something to prepare you for this massive shift.
More on that in the next few days…
Yours in productivity,
Dan