Political Lessons: Valley of the Boom
Vision of the New Era
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Too many people are blaming the tool for not creating a great machine. Our political machinery is so poorly built because we do not understand how to use the tools. Often technology is thrown at a teacher to improve education. If every student has electronic access to the literature, then legislators expect to see results. A new means of delivery or a new tool does not create knowledge. Knowledge still requires engagement, reflection, testing, adapting, experience, and perspective. Possessing a tool does not gain a result, it allows an opportunity for a result. No new gizmo will produce the result of a revolution in politics. The technologies or the building blocks for new gizmos now exist. It is the social implementation of the new possible that will change us. As more and more people come to use, accept, and adapt the new possibilities, the power of democracy will be focused and our voices unified.
A time will come for a look back. At that time some documentarian will chronicle the history of the new political reality. The path will all seem obvious to these future analysts. Time will have cleared the mists and fogs of the overwhelming present, once it is past.
We can now look to the Transformation of the Party of Lincoln to Trump as a clear path. The change of Southern Strategy seems so logical now. The bridge to Reagan then to Trump all perfectly predictable. Of course, it never was at the time it began.
Click to Vox -- Southern Strategy the White South hops aboard the elephant was it inevitable?
There is a gulf between vision and delivery. Even inevitable change that is guided by the visionary is not accomplished with a direct roadmap. It amazes me 90’s tech is ancient history, of course I am old. The 90’s is when I was full on into the bleeding edge of technology. Experience does have lessons. One can learn if a mind is capable of honest reflection.
A look back to see the obvious that was never obvious at the time. Apple is a great example. There are those like me who loved Mac. I bought a 512k in 1985. I have endured many assaults for even having a Mac and a Windows version of my program at a trade show. People would educate me, always spoken with tones of being so in the know of new tech, “you know Apple is dead.” It was not at all obvious Steve Jobs would be mourned as a creative genius in 1995.
Power PC click for video laying out this Mac in Tech detail
Success of a creation is on two tracks in business. The creation, the technology that changes reality is the first. The administration and sales or the financial success is the second. Even the looming tech bubble could not change reality. The Internet and the tech creations had already changed the world. Amazon and Netscape Navigator both were founded in 1994. Amazon has come to sell us the whole world, though AOL and Netscape faded. All these creations revolutionized the world. A world never to be the same. Sears, Borders, Blockbuster, banking, encyclopedias, movies, Playboy, all porn, print media, taxis, reservations, family reunions, and high school drama now extended into senior hood, all were forced to play by a new set of rules.
Marc Andressen from University of Illinois to Silicon Valley
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