eComm's Creative Destruction Tripled
Lee and I coined the slogan "The Trillion Dollar Rethink" for the Emerging Communications Conference to capture the magnitude of the changes in world communication.
It turns out a trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) is only what the United States spends on telecom. Worldwide the number is really three times that. The 100 billion minutes people talked Skype-to-Skype kept money from the pockets of telephone carriers into the hands of consumers.
We're in transition to a post-telephone era.
New modes and new media.
Post-numeric addressing.
Embedding of access into everyday objects.
Immersion of talk into onlife.
Mediated labor market arbitrage.
Sensory fidelity never imagined when copper was laid.
eComm2008 assembles mindblowing visionaries and entrepreneurial cutthroats, telco rebels and minute-stealing traffickers, frontier architects and mad scientists, all in service to this profound change of our societies, our economies, our work, and our very lives.
You don't have to believe in change.
Just survive it.
If you're smart and lucky, maybe you can lead the change.
What's your piece of the $3 trillion pie?
Comments
I for one have got a small but tasty bite of the pie. Back in the mid nineties I spent many hours and much of my disposable income in a public phone booth, calling from Norway to Mexico. The cheapest method cost a couple of dollars a minute, using obscure call-back cards. Nowadays, using Skype, it's ridiculously cheap to keep in touch (even with video) and a whole lot warmer ;)
Posted by: Øyvind Mo | February 26, 2008 07:27 AM