Knowledge Squared
I was born in the Atomic Age, grew up in the Space Age, was first employed during the Computer Age, but what will likely outlast them all in relevancy is what we tend to call in these post-modern times the Information Age. What I learned in business and economics courses in college during that Computer Age was that there were four factors of production: Capital, labor, management and raw materials/land. What I think we will learn in this next age is that we were missing one – information. Up until now we’ve treated information as an asset, a subset of the other four perhaps - a little bit of capital, raw material, management and labor combined together. What we are learning is that information itself may be a bedrock principle of modern economics and society. There is even now the holographic theory of the universe – that the universe is just one big quantum computer and that it’s ALL about the information flows.