From your job/work experience, what impacts long term change and innovation? In the current climate, are the conditions that fueled a diversity of changes/innovations in products being reduced by business concentration and changes in marketing - accelerated by the influence of the internet? Is that itself short term, or a permanent change? If permanent, is it a "good thing"? Is civilization better for it, or what is/would be lost? (Are some of the conditions that fueled a diversity in music styles a near future causility -for example folk music, as boomers die off?).

Wondering thoughts, I accept. But, IMO, worth some thought/discussion, wherever it goes?


Seth Godin 

"Short order cooks rarely make change happen"

""How far in the future does your agenda extend?

One way to tell: of the things you worked on last week, how many were due last week?

The marketplace has always tempted us with short-term cycles (they require less trust) and the internet amplifies this temptation to buy fast, sell fast, work fast, measure fast, move on. 

But, the work that leads to change is rarely written on an order slip or an RFP (request for proposal). Selling to the next buyer is easier than changing the culture, but easier isn't always the point.""

Seth Godin on March 28, 20