The Connected Age
Anne Zelenka over at GigaOM just posted an interesting rumination on a shift that she says is happening. She posits that we are undergoing a transformation from an Information Age, where knowledge workers work in more formal organizations of people (read: corporations) on proprietary projects with desktop software for money to a Connected Age where individuals or ad hoc groups of people work in bursts of discontinuous productivity on projects with open business models for attention, rather than money.
This thinking is consistent with what we’re trying to build with Listphile. Please let us know how we can do it better. And thanks to Anne for pointing out something that seems so obvious in hindsight, but is not necessarily so until someone like her has the acuity to collect her thoughts and publish them.