CHANGE is the hallmark of life in the Global Village

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More than 30 years ago, a Visionary and Prophet of the 20th Century published the following observation about the tsunami of change about to consume us:

"A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. This new civilization brings with it new family styles; changed ways of working, loving, and living; a new economy; new political conflicts; and beyond all this an altered consciousness as well...The dawn of this new civilization is the single most explosive fact of our lifetimes."
--Alvin Toffler, from The Third Wave (1980)

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Most of us who are old enough to have lived through the 80's can honestly say that we were blinded or in denial about the changes that threatened us. Some of us just gave up and went the way of the dinosaur. Others did their best to stay current but never embraced change as a necessary element of daily life. They prepared for careers in the emerging tech industry only to find that demand for the skills they paid good money to learn were obsolete by the time they landed their first job.

The career advice we were given by our parents and/or school counselors assumed that advanced education provided the best path to success. That was true for their generation. But relentless change was not a factor in their world.

The lifestyle encouraged by our Churches and Social Institutions had the same defect--the assumption that the continued repetition of traditional beliefs and practices assured the status quo. But technological change did not originate with the Churches or Social Institutions. They had no regard for new knowledge nor did they care to envision any reality beyond the status quo.

But just as Toffler predicted, this wave of change would be fast and furious. Those who failed to prepare for and accept it sealed their own fate. Change is the hallmark of life in the Global Village. 

UPDATE FOR 2020:
“Change will be happening so quickly that 50 percent of the occupations that exist today will not exist 10 years from now. So we’re going to be living in an environment that is extremely adaptable and changing all the time,” says Liz Bentley, the founder of Liz Bentley Associates, a leadership development consulting firm. 

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Dogs Rule In The Global Village

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Canine residents of the Global Village are loved and valued. No one knows exactly why this is so or how it came to be but it is indisputable. While many human residents have difficulty obtaining affordable health care or even finding any health care services in the Village, Veterinarians abound. Perhaps it is because Doggie Health Care is not entwined with Big Government and the regulation that comes with it. Or maybe it is the result of the gratitude most humans have for these furry friends.

photo by Rebekah Howell

They serve us in many ways. Need a 24/7 Security Officer to protect your business facility? Get a dog. Need a live-in companion that offers unconditional love for minimal room and board? Get a dog. Blind and in need of a loyal and dependable guide? Get a dog.  Need a courageous critter able to sniff out explosives or contraband? Get a dog. Need help finding humans buried in a landslide or the rubble of an earthquake? Get a dog.

Unlike humans, dogs will work long hours under stressful conditions needing only an occasional pat on the head and enough food and water to sustain them.  They do not complain, seldom get sick, and are fearless in the face of any threat. They can tolerate abuse from children and other family pets, but are quick to respond to threats from outsiders and malcontents. Most dogs will fight to the death to protect their human companions.

In the Global Village, value is measured in terms of need, availability, and best fit. Dogs rule in each of these areas.

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Learning To Live In The Global Village

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The most important curriculum  in the Industrial Park was "how to earn a living" It did not matter how much you already knew or how much knowledge you could acquire in school. What mattered was the ability to earn a living. Since everyone had the same goal it was not hard to figure out where you could earn the best living. Both small and large businesses in the Industrial Park community were always on the lookout for people willing and able to earn a paycheck by operating machines or managing the workers who did so. This did not require much knowledge or complex reasoning--just physical strength, dexterity and a good work ethic. When mathematical or verbal skills were required, then a high school diploma was sufficient to gain access. The rest was conveyed On-The-Job by a Foreman or Supervisor who had learned the job the same way. In many cases, the company CEO had come up through the ranks this way.

It is not like that in the Global Village.  Here, life is more about learning how to live than learning how to earn a living. There are no bars to entry in the Global Village. Anyone is welcome to live here regardless of their mental acuity or physical dexterity. There is a global need for just about every skill and every cache of actionable knowledge that sustained the Industrial Park. However, this need is not concentrated in a local community nor is it actively acquired by designated business entities. For example, the ability to analyze data and annotate trends may not have much value on the streets of  Bangladesh, but can buy a comfortable living using the WWW. 

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The biggest obstacle to living well in the Global Village is finding buyers for your products or services. The buyers are generally strangers whose work ethic and cultural values are a total mismatch to the sellers they seek. In the Industrial Park, that would be a show stopper. In the Global Village it is mostly an inconvenience. Language barriers are easily bridged by Applications that provide instantaneous translation. Currency issues are bridged using virtual value that can move from the buyer's account to the seller's account at the speed of thought. There is no problem with cyber-security because false claims can be traced and corrected faster than a cyber thief can execute them. Those whose only motive is to terrorize residents of the Global Village are simply cut off the Web and isolated. Their ability to purchase products is limited to food and shelter which may be provided as welfare to ensure no access to the Web is needed to sustain their life. 

It may take several decades to learn to live in the Global Village, but given the technical advantage residency offers in this Knowledge Age, the new way of living is likely to endure many centuries.

ADDENDUM 2020
A white paper launched jointly in 2014 by CBRE and Genesis, a leading real estate innovator, developer and operator from China puts this in perspective. The paper—Fast Forward 2030: The Future of Work and the Workplace articulates some of the changes that will challenge those who must transition from the Industrial Park to the Global Village in coming years:

“Experts predict that 50% of occupations today will no longer exist by 2025 as people will take up more creative professions. This means that jobs will evolve and so will real estate development. Through this report, we are looking to better understand how we can create new high-performance, convenient workspaces that are not only aesthetically pleasing, but are also in line with the social values of the workforce of the future."

The key findings of the report were as follows:

1. Artificial intelligence will transform businesses and the work that people do

• Process work, customer work and vast swathes of middle management will simply disappear: 50% of occupations today will no longer exist in 2025
• New jobs will require creative intelligence, social and emotional intelligence and the ability to leverage artificial intelligence. Those jobs will be immensely more fulfilling than today’s jobs
• Workspaces with row of desks as we know them today will be completely redundant. Not because they are not fit for purpose, but simply because that purpose no longer exists.

2. For employees, purpose is more important than financial success

• There is a significant and global trend amongst all people, but particularly the youth, towards happiness, purpose and meaning being as or more important than financial success
• Corporations will not only need to be lean and agile they must be authentic to attract talent: authentic in their values and in making a real contribution to the social good
• As the nature of work changes we expect to see more social entrepreneurship
  
  Young people interviewed for the report clearly indicated that the workplaces of 2030 will contrast starkly to the workplaces of today and will offer a wide variety of quiet retreat and collaborative settings, each ideal for a specific kind of job or task or designed to suit a specific personal work style. In particular, young interviewees suggested that workplaces of the future will need to support worker health and wellbeing—as did all industry experts and business leaders interviewed for the study. The budding industry of wellness in buildings will grow rapidly in the coming decade.

    

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Celebrity in the Global Village

No one can buy celebrity status in the Global Village.
No one can earn celebrity status in the Global Village.
Anyone, at any moment in time, can become a Celeb if the animating muses agree.
A single action, in the right moment for the right reason, can go viral and wrap the aura of celebrity around the person who performed it. There is no known process guaranteed to make this happen. Such certainty was a hallmark of the Industrial Park.

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In the Global Village, the charismatic ability to seize the moment is the only process capable of generating true celebrity.
 

Having the presence of mind to capture an event on a smart phone is often step one. Once captured, that event can be released to the World Wide Web. This simple action performed in the right moment can awaken every resident of the Global Village and go viral.
 

Celebrity Status in the Global Village is both universal and fleeting. It may last for an hour, a day, or even a week. But it seldom lasts much longer. There are simply too many wannabe residents of the Village to afford more than a quick flash of fame on the cosmic conscious.

 

That's just the way it is in the Global Village.

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Ivy League Schools Have No Rank in the Global Village

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Mainstream colleges and universities have little or no value in the Global Village. In the Industrial Park, these institutions had the luxury of long lead times. They could teach the skills valued  by emerging high-tech and low tech corporations. Most were staffed by Instructors who had pioneered the latest technology.  By default, their certification was earned the old-fashioned way; on the job experience.

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This is not the scenario in the Global Village. Here, ad hoc "non-degree schools" are available 24/7 via the WWW.  Some require tuition payments. Others are offered free to those who agree to promote products of the sponsor. They have the support of tech titans like Alphabet Inc (Google). And they are not dependent on Endowment Funds or Benefactors for their survival.  Nearly everyone who bothers to master the skills or actionable knowledge offered by these ad hoc schools will be prepared to meet a need in the Global Village.But how do Residents know what skills are likely to be in demand at the time they are prepared to apply them?

There are four rules used by successful Residents who wish to learn the skills that will be in demand in the near future:

1. Be the first to learn a valuable skill. Track emerging science, technologies, apps, tools, industries, and fields. When ones are growing exponentially, spend a few hours exploring them to see if it’s worth putting in more time. It helps you try new things without wasting your time on things that turn into duds.
2. Learn valuable skills that are difficult. Be willing to invest in areas that are taboo, aren’t super sexy, time-consuming, strenuous, appear risky or are super technical or academic.
3. Learn valuable skills with hidden benefits. Humans have value blind spots. They under-estimate skills with abstract, long-term payoffs; micro-skills; skills from other disciplines; and classic ideas that have been forgotten.
4. Redefine value better than the consensus. In our careers, we use our skills to serve someone else. Regardless of social status, level of education, or economic background, every Resident of the Global Village is both a producer and a consumer. Whether they be a customer, a boss, a fan, a recruiter, or prospect, if you can better understand the unmet needs of the people you’re serving better than others, you will be able to meet those needs better. That will give you a competitive advantage that is not easy to emulate.
   

For example: the Global Village resident who finds a quick and accurate way to test blood supplies for the presence of the COVID-19 virus will win the Medical Research equivalent of a Gold Medal. This is not something one can learn how to do in an Ivy League University. Nor can it be "developed" in traditional research laboratories. But there are currently thousands of residents of the Global Village working on this problem. One of them is likely to find the solution within the next few months. If that solution proves to be accurate and viable, the person holding IP rights to it will never have to work again. They will be free to pursue any interest they wish in the Global Village.

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Autonomy In The Global Village

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The Global Village is not governed by Representative Government. It is not a Republic.
The Global Village is not governed by Democratic Majority. It is not a Democracy.
The Global Village is autonomous. 

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All decision making is Knowledge Based Decision Making [KBDM]

Change is guided by trends.

Trends are triggered by conscious need and accelerated by value.

Value is assigned at the speed of thought.

The potential value of every item / service in The Global Village  is based
on five ingredients: Time, Quality, Quantity, Availability, Ability to Deliver, and Opportunity.

 

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Each ingredient is also ranked according to its importance in providing earned value.
 

• The Earned Value of each item/service delivered is a roll up of its value to the client and to the community, EV provides objective evidence that residents of the Village do value them and that value is earned through conscious decisions being made in real time.

2. This recognition is not based on the personal preferences of Individuals or outdated Government statistics but on actual usage counts and a valuation of each item/service using the same methods as the Banking Industry uses to assess credit worthiness. [The FICO score].
   

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There Are No Churches In The Global Village

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If you are searching for a particular House of Worship in the Global Village, you will not find it. There are no brick and mortar churches, masques, synagogues or temples here. They are not needed. Anyone who wishes to acknowledge a Higher Power can do so within the confines of his or her conscious mind. Therein lives the greatest Mystery of life: what lies just beyond our physical senses.

 Photo by Rota Alternativa on Unsplash .

.  Every resident of the Global Village is welcome to connect with this Higher Power. There are no special rituals or protocols required. One need only go past the cares and distractions that still linger from our days in the Industrial Park. When all that is put aside, the conscious mind is open to  Peace and Serenity. These are the spiritual bricks and mortar of the only House of Worship in the Global Village.

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Prayers may begin spontaneously across the Village. But everyone knows that prayers are required and responds according to their own tradition. Christians call upon Jesus, Buddhists finger their mala beads, Hindus chant mantras, and Muslims initiate the Salat. Others may wish upon a star, observe a moment of mindfulness, or perform a random act of kindness. Regardless of the way each resident prays, they all do so in unison.

 Every resident of the Global Village is able to connect with this Higher Power. There are no special rituals or protocols required. One need only go past the cares and distractions that still linger from our days in the Industrial Park. When all that is put aside, the conscious mind is open to  Peace and Serenity. These are the spiritual bricks and mortar of the only House of Worship in the Global Village.

 

  

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There Are No Borders in the Global Village

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The Industrial Park was surrounded by walls and fences. Entry Gates were controlled by receptionists, guards, or a combination of both. Passports, badges, Visas, or Photo IDs were the entry keys. If you tried to enter by any other means you were trespassing.

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Every property owner in the Industrial Park had the right to restrict entry in any manner that was not otherwise prohibited by law. Part of this right included being able to use the property exclusively and preventing other people from entering the property without permission.

The Global Village has none of these entry barriers. Highways, Rail Lines, and Passenger Ships have been replaced by a world wide web capable of gaining instantaneous entry to an address anywhere in the Global Village at any time of the day or night. Since the World Wide Web is not owned by anyone, exclusive use is not supported by laws. Entry is at the discretion of the entrant; exclusion is at the discretion of the address holder. With few exceptions residents of the Global Village are free to conduct their daily affairs without regulation, or rules of conduct imposed by Government bodies.

The term illegal alien is meaningless in the Global Village.  All residents are freeholders of their own address. There are no borders or barriers to entry.

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Olympic Games In The Global Village

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The purpose of  the  Olympic Games in the Global Village remains the same: promote peace and unity within the international community through the medium of sports. What does change is the venue and the kinds of sports played. 

Virtual reality and video gaming comprise the venue for the games. Gone are the brick and mortar field houses, gyms, swimming pools, arenas, and expensive sporting gear required to compete. In their place are cloud storage servers, ultra high speed internet connections, and a host of specialty gaming and/or  virtual reality devices.

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In the Industrial Park, the competition revolved around superior physical prowess driven by disciplined mental control. In the Global Village, superior mental prowess driven by acquired skill and knowledge are the basis of all competition.

In some of the gaming sports, players are assisted by Anatomical Intelligence applications. This continues to evolve despite protests from older competitors who compare it to doping. However, their protest has yet to evoke a change to the IOC Anti-Doping Rules which make no mention of Anatomical Intelligence.

So far, the most disruptive challenge to IOC operations has been cyber security. The most complex challenge is finding ways to either accommodate the tsunami of mentaletes who qualify, or limit them using fair and comprehensive trials. In the interest of peace and unity, the IOC is leaning toward global accommodation. 

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No Jobs In The Global Village

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There were plenty of jobs in the Industrial Park. Most of them paid well and included benefits for health care and retirement. Just get a high school diploma and some work experience or an Associate Degree from a Junior College and you were in like Flint. Work in the same place for 25 or more years and you'd be looking forward to a comfortable retirement spent traveling around the country or just gardening at home. Those were the days.

It ain't at all like that in the Global Village. A high school diploma has little more value than graduation from Kindergarten. They tell me that there are only two types of successful producers in the Global Village; those who give instructions to computers and those who must take instructions from computers.

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In the Industrial Park most people worked with their hands. Some were able to work with their heads. Yet the the difference in their paychecks was not that far apart. The distinction between an assembly line worker and a foreman was in the amount of physical and mental ability required to do the job. Most foremen began their career on the assembly line and learned their administrative skills on the job. Some did so well that they were promoted into higher levels of management. This came with fatter paychecks and even better benefits. One important benefit was college tuition reimbursement. This made it possible for aspiring CEOs to earn their MBA compliments of the company they served. It also gave them a leg up in finding their next job should their company go belly up or should they decide to move to greener pastures.

In the Global Village, there are only two ways to get ahead. You either exploit your talents and natural skills or you acquire the skills and knowledge to become productive in a hurry. In either case you had better enter the game being fully computer literate and able to do a lot more than surf the Web.

There are no jobs in the Global Village. There are only needs. Company X needs a Customer Service rep who understands their product well enough to address customer problems from a remote office [aka your home]. Company Y needs an Industrial Computer programmer to maintain and update robotic assembly computers. Extensive travel required to support facilities in 5 States.

Rarely will you get a Job Description or an Employment Contract in the Global Village. At best you will get a Payment Voucher which you can invoice upon successful completion of a task or milestone. In order to obtain the Payment Voucher you had to underbid at least 5 qualified people able to meet the need. Your only edge is that you are unencumbered by marriage or geographical preference. Company X will reimburse you for any office equipment you require. Company Y supplies a company car or will pay millage if you choose to use your own car.

But there are no jobs in the Global Village. 

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