The document discusses how the internet has become a global utility that has profoundly shifted power and created new advantages and disadvantages. It notes that with great power comes great responsibility and that while the internet enables greater transparency, it can also be misused and create distractions. Early adoption of new technologies provides exponential and asymmetric advantages.

1. Globalization &
The Internet
the world lit by fire
to WTF

2. It’s a UTILITY.
Increasingly ubiquitous and invisible
..and (as with most globalization) asym
metric

3. .. with great power comes great responsibility

4. IMAGINE John Lennon
health, geopolitics, financial markets, corporations, journalism, communication,
relationships, talent, education, creativity, music, travel, news, activism, ecology
but always remember
NEWTON

5. ..making us
stupid, fat &
lazy?

6. WEAPONS OF
MASS
DISTRACTION

7. witness: MXit horror by parents

9. The World isNOT
Flat

11. we’re seeing ourselves in a new light

12. [edit]
we commit differently

13. the balance of power.
When Politics met Web

14. [unfair.y tales & piglets]
RELEASE EARLY
RELEASE OFTEN
early advantage counts exponentially & asymmetrically

15. ..it’s easier and cheaper to get everything when
you already have advantage

16. 1. It’s a UTILITY - access not ownership
2. POWER has shifted. profoundly. With great power ..
3. Advantages (depending on your perspective)
4. Disadvantages (neither good nor bad, as with ALL globalization)
5. ONE MACHINE radical transparency, we’re all in it together

17. Wednesday:
our global dinosaur.juice hangover,
our love.affair with coffee
and good green chocolate
+ re sources later on Vula