The Next Big Thing

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One of the concerns I’ve expressed since the economic downturn started dealt with the shift in IT capability, the value that IT can bring to the business and the opportunity for those who think about the bold use of IT.

I’ve phrased this as entering a “world of abundance in IT”. I think my first post related to abundance actually predated the downturn and was back in 2005.

While I was waiting to board a plane yesterday in Dallas, I saw a review of a soon to be released book: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (by Peter H. Diamandis , Steven Kotler).

The book goes into detail describing four forces that are bringing a new level and understanding of abundance to human life. 

“Providing abundance is humanity’s grandest challenge—this is a book about how we rise to meet it.”

The book comes out on Feb 21st. Naturally I had to order it and see how it aligned to my thinking.

[#2]

An interesting article about the Abundance book from reason.com

[#3]

There is also a video that tells a bit more about the Abundance book.