Bob Garfield’s Chaos Scenario

“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevancy even less.” ~ General Eric Shinseki, 2003

The Chaos Scenario, by Bob Garfield, is about the historic re-ordering of media, marketing and commerce and traditional business triggered by the revolution in digital technology. It explores examples of adaptation to what is literally a new age of human endeavor. It is about the cutting edge, sometimes a laser scalpel and other times a guillotine.

It is, in short, about crawling from the wreckage of the old order to establish a new one.

The digital universe shifted power from the few to the many and altering human behavior, not to mention economies, on a grand scale. The question for business – as well as government, religion, science, politics, academia and every other institution hitherto operated from the top down – is what to do now.

Want more information? Download free chapters from The Chaos Scenario and visit Garfield’s blog. 

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