The democratization of IT

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Get your head out of your paradigm

"democratization of IT"... are you serious? Look at any complex multipolar situation in the world and you'll see that when there are diverging forces, democracy is a liability.

Iraq... competing religious factions turned the idea of democracy into a joke.

The Palestinian territories... Democracy resulted in a shift from the Fata party to Hamas. Not sure that was a win for democracy.

Afganistan.... Karzai has won his re-election as president in a sea of corruption and minimal voter turnout in a country fractured by ethnic and tribal loyalties. Not exactly democracy's finest hour.

And let's not forget America, Canada, UK... all countries with apathy and poor citizen participation.

Information Technology is just like that - a set of polarizing technologies and trends that are often mutually exclusive. IT is trending into a mess of fractured services and technologies much like a 200 channel cable TV service: 200 channels to pick from, and crap on all of them.

I suspect I'm not the only one that thinks a large chunk of the "web" is crap, and that the proportion of crap to valued knowledge is increasing.

Posted by: croberts   Posted on: 09/18/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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