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Vaporized

Understanding digitalisation to avoid being vaporized

Robert Tercek invites us on a journey of discovery into the depths of our reality: a magic world defined by software in which we are used to having all the information, all the time, instantly and anywhere. The birth of the internet has facilitated the liberation of information from the physical prison in which it was being held, into the form of ethereal files. The advent and diffusion of smartphones ensures that all the knowledge in the world is available to anyone, anywhere at any time. The vaporization of our society is forcing us to take on a difficult challenge: to do more and to do better, by using software to help reduce wasteful use of natural resources and to minimise our harmful impact on the planet.

Vaporized
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Atoms become bytes and our society is suddenly defined by software

Richard Buckminster Fuller, architect and American philosopher, one of the great innovators of the twentieth century, introduced the concept of “doing more with less”. He even got as far as to propose the hypothesis of “doing everything with nothing”. At the heart of his idea was the notion of improving people’s lives without draining the resources of our planet. Thanks to globalisation, the dematerialisation of knowledge and the expansion of connectivity, Fuller’s dream has become our reality. Useless matter tends to disappear, leaving room for the essential; a process made possible by digitisation, so bytes replace the atom. Digitalisation has not only invaded the information world and that of production and the world of work, it has become a factor that permeates every environment in our existence. We are a society defined by software, where the digital shapes us and conditions our lives.

  

The key ideas of "Vaporized"

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Atoms become bytes and our society is suddenly defined by software
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The objects that contain information shed the packaging that contains them
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Solid, liquid and gas: the three states of matter and of information
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The digital transformation has created consumers with superpowers
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Products and companies can disappear into thin air without even leaving a trace of their existence
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Television slowly vaporize and members of the audience become the stars of the show
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Every digital business is an exchange, a link between a seeker and a seller
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Reform education to prepare the next generation of workers
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Take-home message
 
 
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