Rumble, rumble. (impact of information era on organizations)(Trends: Position Yourself in the Future)

WHEN THE INFRASTRUCTURE RUMBLES, EVERYTHING CHANGES. HOW WILL THE NEXT PHASE OF THE INFORMATION ERA CHANGE ORGANIZATIONS AND AFFECT YOUR WORK? THE AUTHOR PROPOSES SOME POSSIBILITIES.

Infrastructures in any economy are the elementary networks that are put in first, and upon which all subsequent economic activity depends. Real estate developers, for example, first put in the infrastructure of roads, dams, sewers, electricity, and the like, so that communities of homes and businesses can follow. Each economy in history has relied heavily on a particular kind of infrastructure, one that is peculiar to the technology of its era. The railroads, for example, were crucial for the economic development of America in the nineteenth century. The railroad tracks and trains were the infrastructure upon which regional economies grew into a single national economy. Similarly, the automobile prompted the building of the U.S. interstate highway network in the 1950s, the infrastructure for the next 20 years of American …