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November 9, 2005

‘Sea change' upon us, says Gates, Wed., Nov. 9, 2005, 5:58 AM

AP writer Allison Linn has written a story that will be widely read today, and worth pondering. Bill Gates is urging the senior executives at Microsoft to endorse the company's new Internet-based services business model.

The world's technology leader is now preparing to meet head-on all Web-based competitors, challenges and opportunities.

This positioning among technology giants is all about the battle for your desktop, regardless of who you are or where you live or work. That infrastructure will facilitate the battle for your mind, the one to be fought between fashion-versus-function based communications.

I have to believe that the next five years will bring the greatest change in lifestyle the world has ever seen, and I want you to think about what is happening here.

There are two opposing sides, and each has adopted a different strategy.

On the one side is the traditional capitalist. On the other is the entrepreneur.

The capitalist has always used hierarchical-modelled systems as a way to control. To survive, the entrepreneur uses network-modelled systems.

The capitalist has always sold fashion; the entrepreneur sells function.

But, as every good architect knows, form follows function. Therefore, applying this most basic principle, I think the entrepreneur wins the war.

Ultimately, I believe this conflict leads to the emergence of entrepreneurship and the power of communities as the principal way of life, as well as the death of capitalism and the power of the nation over its people.

Sea change? Yes indeed.

Posted by Posted by Bill Cara on November 9, 2005 05:58:41 AM | Category: Cara "Focus" of the Week