Ed note : i love how ” pop ” media jumps on a bandwagon soon as some overpaid ” think tank ” researcher gets up on stage and avers what we internet users have known for about 10 years .. LOL … these dunderheads are the keepers of the economy and that is precisely why its tanking …
any fools donkey can tell you that any programmer can help you circumvent the IT rules of the house … not allowing people to communicate may help keep the office quite but it will ruin business because anybody with a real idea has to communcate it, the ones that are following your company rules and reciting after you are sucking on your oxygen at a time when 500 million Indians, 600 million Chinese, millions of South Americans, millions of Russians are doing everything they can and more to improve life at home by working on the cheap for anyone who cares to pay -
Businesses in the EU and the US ( the so called West ) that choke access to these idea rich, capital starved idea pools are only hastening their inevitable downfall, schools in the West are hard pressed to find good engineers, doctors, scientists, programmers and mathematicians ( Mr Bill Gates himself is on record saying he has never met so many young, bright, educated professionals as he has in India .. ) because the average student is gearing up to slot himself into some unionised median wage job where he is only a consumer, a monkey to turn that wrench; neither has the West invested in creating future – proof engineering jobs, nor has it invested in renewable energy, nor has it spent enough to educate its populace on the advantages of Information technologies, nor has it re structured its schooling to allow the best ideas to stay in the country – the best ideas are getting shipped to China and India for research and develop enabling these economies to learn, adapt and catch up, its an exponential growth – since the mid 80s when IT started to take off more dollar millionaires employees have been created in India than the US or the EU ( as of 2000, India had 80 million Dollar millioanires, thats the entire population of Germany ) – why ? arent Americans smart enough ?
The West does not know how to save its income, they blow it all up on stupid entertainment ( Im not sure how else to categorise 200 million USD spent on making tripe like ” Titanic “at a time when millions of children starve to death in Sub Saharan Africa – the EU and the US have built their capital markets, lifestyle and consumer spending by preying on poor economies – now these same Western societies – economies are hoping that their former prey will open their purse strings to help them maintain the former opulence.
The head of Infosys India has no 300 million yatch; I personally would prefer that the Western economies that profited from years of growing consumer spending fulled by low interest rates just die out, lets replace them with a global economy where your idea comes from smart people ( not white or yellow or blue or offshore ) , where you capital comes not from speculative players but from savings and solid business plans, where you develop and keep markets abroad and at home via innovation ( thus engendering a culture of free thinking and innovation ) and one where the future is what you make it rather than what you are forced to inherit after each economic bubble – we can do it.
And to make it happen all we really need to do is install an IM and tap into the Billion people on the Internet, atleast 5 % of who are really smart. It wasnt the Industrial Revolution that opened up the world for the common man, it was the Movable Type; it wasnt capitalism or socialism or government intervention that drove the French Revolution, it was ideas.
Ideas are to be gifted. If you dont whats the idea worth anyway ?
I hope I have made my stance on IMs clear – set the herd free … they arent your slaves, if your staff is under producing due to IMs then you have the wrong people in the wrong jobs; any noob can show you how to ignore messages that decrese productivity, you dont need to be Albert Einsten to hang out a ” Do not disturb ” sign.
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