Saturday, June 10, 2006

Cyber cashflows

The previous posting, titled "Epistemological orgy," shows a powerful picture that accurately illustrates how people will create and market value in the knowledge economy.

A Web-empowered professional, for instance, will work with several customer-facing Web screens in order to deliver value in the form of customized intellectual capital. ("Intellectual capital" is strategically packaged knowledge; knowledge is like gun powder, whereas intellectual capital is more like bullets or any form of ammunition. The human mind, of course, is the gun.)

The age of cybercashflows is now upon us. James Martin was right when he wrote the book about cybercorps (cybernetically controlled corporations), and James Davidson (author of The Sovereign Individual) was also right about the rise of super-empowered individuals who rule economically and politically via cyberspace.

The major problem with corporate employment, of course, is that usually, each employee is only facing one screen. Therefore, he/she has only one cashflow (which comes in the form of a paycheck).

Success secret: the more customer-facing Web screens you monitor, the more cashflows you have.