Web II, the Global Brain and Sustainable Organizations

Howard Bloom’s Global Brain offers an interesting evolutionary perspective on what I am calling Adaptive Alignment in line with Sustainable Organization. He suggests that there are five processes that have been engaged in by life forms from bacteria to humanity and that these processes are the mechanism of a mass mind or a global brain…. these are the communication network that allows for species sustainability. He provides convincing examples and illustrations of these throughout the book. To get to them quickly, they are;

Conformity Enforcers
Diversity Generators
Inner Judges
Resource Shifters
Inter-group Tournaments

Look at some of the blogs and their operationalizing of what Web II will become. An example is the seminal piece by O'Reilly What is Web 2.0 and the explicative articles by Dion Hinchcliffe at http://web2.wsj2.com/. Draw your own conclusions. This is a great time to be alive!