Change Is The Norm

we live in a world not of calmness and stability, but one of chaos and change.  change is not the exception today, it is the norm.

change is precipitated every day by people and events in the news and in our circles of friends.  take the news around Edward Snowden for example.  who would have thought that a CIA analyst could impact the structure of the internet and the business opportunities available to the technology companies of the world -- but he has.

as a result of his releases, the internet is actually being modified or segmented into country controlled units. Britain and Germany among others are building their own internal to country loops that will feed the larger internet when necessary and keep all other locally sourced and destined traffic within the country.  that way then can control the encryption and the snooping by the U.S., China, Russia and others.  in the future you will have to picture the internet in your mind as a series of interconnected rings, much like the symbol of the olympics.

even individual companies are taking these steps by strengthening their intra-company networks, providing electronic and physical isolation from the internet and removing their intellectual capital and r&d machines from networks all together. these types of changes will precipitate down to companies of all sizes and disciplines over the next decade.

the opportunity for technology companies is to excel in secure network building and encryption techniques, as well as leading edge information security.  change your company to capture the opportunities not where the market is today, but where it is going to be tomorrow.