How did planet Earth come to be? Life? Humans? The computer? The internet?
It is difficult to answer these questions — and in this text we certainly will not try to deal with them and their answers. Still, these questions matter for one reason: what is common to every origin?
The thread that connects
What is common in the origin of the planet, life, humans, the computer, the internet and everything that exists — is connecting, joining, uniting, networking — or however we call that something that creates this world.
If we imagine that the thread (never static) connecting beings is itself born of joining — and that these joinings further create new micro and macro systems — we come to a conclusion: everything that tends to join, that is, to expand through connecting, has an end where the expansion stops.
Expansion has its boundary, but the boundary itself is not static. At a certain moment it is merely the point where expansion stops and gathering begins — so that new connecting and expansion can occur.
In line with this process, it can be concluded that all systems that were limited in some way slowly die — that is, they reach their endpoint — until some part of them obtains a potential point of expansion.
Digital transformation as a point of expansion
If we are talking about the economy, business and companies — we can conclude that the key point of expansion is precisely digital transformation.
As a reminder, it is important to emphasise: the computer was at one point only a technical tool that enabled people to make certain complicated calculations easier — faster and simpler.
The internet as a turning point
The computer, even in a more advanced function, would have remained at the level of a tool like a typewriter or a calculator — had the internet not come about, enabling connecting, joining and networking.
The biggest expansion was provided by social networks and online media — which turned one-way, limited communication into multi-way communication.
Thus the computer went from being a tool to being a means of communication. The vision of Bill Gates — “a computer on every desk in every home” — has been extended to today’s: the computer (tablet, smartphone) is in every hand, from the age of one to one hundred and one.
Processor power and memory price
An interesting fact from Klaus Schwab (2016): today one tablet (smart device) has the processor power equivalent to 5,000 desktops of just 30 years ago.
At the same time, the price of memory is almost zero:
- Today: 1 GB costs 0.03 cents
- 20 years ago: 1 GB cost USD 10,000
Connecting as a basic need
This was not achieved because the computer made certain operations possible — those are only additional benefits today.
It was achieved because the computer, with the help of the internet, enabled people to connect — and thereby grasped the thread and almost unlimited possibility of expansion. Thus it merged with the basic need of people and of life on earth in general — which is connecting.
Conclusion
The conclusion is clear: every company today should know that its expansion point is in digital transformation — and connect NOW or IMMEDIATELY.
Source: www.proventum.me
