Can IT help us survive?

Active in the growth of corporate IT and watching the expanding cloud, leaving me confused about how this will all knit together and allow us all to communicate and collaborate for a better world. Finding a path amongst the confusion is second nature to those who explore and implement, more difficult for polarised activists and a jungle for joe bloggs. We are always dysfunctional in communicating and have used the web to focus in, rather than open out. In the last throws of its survival, the printed press revels in pointing this out. Yet another FaceBook murder.

How can we address this and use this amazing and almost limitless technology to focus on facing a harsh new world, where the very nature of our existence is at risk and recognise that only technology and physics can allow 6 billion people to survive. And in surviving, we have a good life where culture and rock and roll is possible? The current focus on organic green is not enough, we should have started 200 years ago. I fear we are heading for 3 degrees and am radically adjusting my view on the energy needed to support the technology that could make us all a little wiser.

I may continue this blog, but excuse me if I quote James Lovelock