http://www.theenvisioners.com/index.php/2011/10/13/parliament-and-internet-visions-for-the-internet-and-social/ Thinking About The Future, Not Just Predicting It Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:29:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.theenvisioners.com/index.php/2011/10/13/parliament-and-internet-visions-for-the-internet-and-social/comment-page-1/#comment-11845 Gary Burt Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:19:14 +0000 http://www.theenvisioners.com/index.php/2011/10/13/the-vision-and-opportunities-of-the-internethow-can-social-media-and-the-internet-drive-innovation-democracy-and-growth/#comment-11845 Insightful speech Dave. Absolutely right in dispelling the myths about the internet. As you say, we are still learning and shouldn’t be surprised if we don’t always get things right first time. In fact, we shouldn’t expect to. Human society is a complex and evolving ecosystem. Any change, including change enabled by technology will force the ecosystem to adapt. This adaption will then adapt and evolve as peoples’ behaviour adapts to the change, and the technology then evolves to meet the changed expectations … and this continues. So introducing technology into a human ecosystem is not highly predictable. It cannot be. The route to success therefore is to expect this changing state and be ready to learn and adapt both the technology and how we interact with it. How often do we hear this in the press or from government though? Who would be willing to say this? “We want to improve things, but this may not work. If it doesn’t we will learn from this and adapt, and keep learning and keep adapting until we do make a positive difference?” Compare that to the way that we handled the NHS technology implementation, “we know best and this will work!”. Wrong. You don’t; and it didn’t. And in the process, cost not only a great deal of money, but a great deal of goodwill with the population and their view of technology. None of this is news of course. Oh yes, what did Dave talk about … ‘the arrogance of the present’. Spot on.

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