Speed of change
Posted by Felix Enescu on January 17th, 2007
Quoting Tom Peters:
Even—especially?—the “unprecedented” “change”/”speed of change” argument is suspect. In General Grant’s day the arrival of the telegraph was as radical, I think you could argue, as the arrival of the Web. “Unprecedented change”? My Mom, who died in 2005 experienced, among other things: the arrival of radio, long-distance phones, TV, computers, the Web, cars, flight (Wright brothers to 747s to Neil Armstrong), WWI, the Great Depression, WWII, the Cold War, the Korean “police action,” Vietnam, Gulf Wars I & II, the scourge of HIV, etc, etc. By her standards, I’ve (we’ve) experienced a cakewalk!
We keep hearing that our time in unique, that our challenges are unique… Is that it?
Read the full post of Tom here.
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I think it is fair to establish a rapport with the present challenges, even if we may have the luxury to introspect on past. Change is difficult to accept; that’s a fact! But more than all, even if we learn that change is good, we may postpone the acceptance of its pace.
Is the change too fast for us? Or for the ones around us reluctant to accept (and, as a consequence, in disagreement with our expectations).
For instance, I am overwhelmed by the speed of information. Is so quick that I hardly find energy to accept it. Is the information bring valuable change? How much is perception? Who might “measure”?