Content, context, connections – and purpose
A few days back, one of my fellow Twitterers (I forget who – my apologies) pointed me to a brief video, ‘Context is King‘, by futurist David Houle. His theme in the video and elsewhere is that we are in an “evolution shift” from ‘the Information Age’ to what he calls ‘the Shift Age’. In the video he suggests that:
In the Information Age, the phrase was “Content is King”. While that may still be true, in the Shift Age, “Context is King”
Yet whilst that also “may still be true”, it doesn’t go anything like far enough. At the very least, we need to add ‘connections’ to that list, and probably ‘purpose’ as well – and, perhaps most important, the integration that links all of those dimensions together.
(Oh dear, yet another one that’s getting a bit long, and probably a bit too abstract too. Mainly enterprise-architecture and the like, so click on the ‘Read more…’ link if that’s of interest to you.)