Our High-Speed World

This is our social situation - things are moving faster all the time. Or we can say - our social pressure is greater all the time. Or we can say - networks are becoming more powerful all the time. Or we can say - information moves faster all the time.

If you examine all the situations I have stated above, you will notice that People are becoming less important, and the Computer more important.

This seems alarming, but in fact - people make computers, and the software that runs them. People without computer skills, are being pushed out - and people with computer skills, are being moved in. And this creates great confusion.

All this can be summarized easily, by saying the Computer has changed everything. A statement that everyone agrees with - and at the same time, disagrees with. Because they cannot comprehend what it means.

It took several centuries for that last great change to happen - but this one is happening in only a few decades - since the Eighties!

For those inside the Computer World, this speedup is understandable - and they can understand it, in considerable detail. For them, it is logical.

For everyone else, it makes no sense at all - and they resist it, with all their strength. They elect leaders, that promise to turn the clock back, and restore the world they are comfortable with.

And remove the freedoms they are uncomfortable with.