| Have you noticed that technology has expanded the | | | | what has been previously deemed untrue in the past, |
| way in which humans now communicate, share | | | | may in fact be true. It just wasn't fully appreciated at |
| information and collaborate to create new things faster | | | | the time, or was judged out of context. Thus we must |
| than ever before. But has the human ability to | | | | be extremely careful in what we deem to be true and |
| assimilate the massive volume of information now | | | | untrue. |
| available, and the evaluate it in a reasonable time to | | | | We will gain most from the vast world of information |
| make timely decisions. The answer is NO! As humans | | | | by changing the way we process information and |
| we were educated in the Socratic way of thinking, | | | | seek the decisions that support our objectives. It is |
| innovating and making decisions. Each new thought | | | | foolhardy to expect to be able to do this one fact at a |
| expanded upon previously validated information. Thus | | | | time using the human brain. Our brain is not capable of |
| evolution of products, ideologies and systems was | | | | seeing let alone computing all the complexities of the |
| progressive, but slow. It was also confined to facts | | | | business world today and making decisions that align |
| previously held as 'true'. | | | | with the very small windows of opportunity presented |
| Today, information sharing and collaborative thinking | | | | to us. We are best served by using business |
| has transformed innovation from a single vertical | | | | intelligence technology to evaluate and filter information |
| stream to multiple parallel streams that do not require | | | | and present us with the best selection of options from |
| to follow a deductive evolutionary path. Rather than | | | | which we can then apply our human decision making |
| expand of previous notions - new ideas can be | | | | capability. |
| induced from any source. This heralds a new | | | | Man has not evolved with sufficient speed to operate |
| framework for information development - one which | | | | in the world that technology has now redefined. We |
| the human brain has not been trained to handle. We | | | | must merge with the strengths of technology and |
| distrust anything that does not relate to something | | | | embrace it for its value or risk falling behind into a |
| which we have previously trusted. We are bounded | | | | mediocre society. We have the opportunity to move |
| by our own view of reality - our own truth. | | | | beyond the barbaric attitudes of enforcing a single |
| Well guess what - Truth is the biggest con every | | | | truth upon mankind, and instead seek to embrace a |
| introduced to man. It relies on judgments made by | | | | world of creativity merged from the inputs of many |
| other people, in other circumstances, for other | | | | individuals. |
| agendas. Whilst there are fundamental human | | | | We have the freedom to move beyond the |
| principles to do others no harm - there is no reason for | | | | constraints where for something to be right, everything |
| each of us to adopt the choices made by others for | | | | else must be proven wrong. This type of fanaticism |
| their lives, and their businesses. Each individual and | | | | and arrogance has no place in the modern world. It has |
| organization must define its own beliefs, its own truths | | | | been outpaced by higher forms of intelligence that will |
| and its own agendas. | | | | lead us as a global community to far higher places |
| Naturally, those concepts that receive support from | | | | than we ever before thought possible. This is one |
| others survive. Those that do not, generally fade into | | | | decision technology cannot make for us, and |
| non-relevance and cease to exist in the present. Truth | | | | unfortunately if the human race cannot speed up its |
| is a judgment in a single passing moment. What is true | | | | own intellectual evolution we are doomed to fail |
| today may equally be proved untrue tomorrow. And | | | | ourselves and our future. |