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Social media comes home to roost in the land of its birth
Are we seeing the first stirrings of an American Spring? Little demonstrations starting up all over the country and now those little demonstrations are getting bigger. I wonder how long this will last. Is this just a passing fad or does it have staying power?
So far the established press is taking a somewhat low key approach to covering these demonstrations, and politicians are mostly keeping their distance. For those of us interested in the fine art of making things happen, this could be a textbook study in using social media and game theory to start something big (what if Foursquare or or a social network like them started handing out badges and awards for attending Occupy rallies?).
Years from now lessons learned in this happening could be taught in marketing and strategy classes to illustrate techniques for launching new products and companies. I do not mean to imply that what is happening will become subverted or trivialized. I mean to imply that great things happening now provide great examples for the future, and for those who participate in them, they provide mind expanding experiences.
Maybe this is a new generation’s time to lead. The last time a generation turned out to protest and get the people in charge to change course was 40 years ago. What motivated that generation was the very real concern that the young men were going to be drafted and sent to war in Vietnam. That made the cause more than just an abstraction. Maybe the very real lack of meaningful jobs and questionable prospects for the future is motivating a new generation to turn out to protest because this cause too is more than just an abstraction.
Of course people don’t know exactly what they want. These are changing times and the same old ideas that got us into this fix will certainly not be the ideas that get us out of our predicament. Neither of the established political parties seem to have any new ideas. Time for people to trust in their own ability to think for themselves. Time to do some bold thinking and experimenting; ideas will emerge.
And the idea promotion and consensus building power of social media will go to work on the new ideas that are generated. Most ideas won’t go anywhere, but some will get legs. Some will attract more and more support. Some ideas will get put into action. They will turn out to be the ones that shape the next 40 years.
What better time than now to think big and broaden our minds? Steve Jobs is quoted in a Yahoo News article as saying about Bill Gates: "I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."
These are times that call for more than political platitudes and endless bickering over ideas from the last century. These are times that call for us to get up and get going. And in the process we will surely find “the next insanely great thing.”
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