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Private Client Focus on Technology-Induced Civilization Engineering |
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WCCN’s 20th Century focus was on covering and
developing methods for improving
enterprise productivity based on the use of wireless communications and
automatic data capture technologies. A productivity improvement process WCCN
labeled Portable Interactive Transaction Processing (ITP). Concurrently, the deployment of wireline packet
switching interoperability technology enabled a critical paradigm shift in
the way commercial business is conducted. A shift aptly labeled the
e-commerce business practices model. The e-commerce model fostered a rearrangement of
functions and roles between each enterprise and its respective supply chain.
And, the productivity improvement capabilities of ITP were applied
synchronously across enterprises within e-commerce-supporting supply chains.
The most visible consequence has been the dismantling of some of the supply
chains’ bricks and mortar as part of a restructuring to virtual retail
outlets and “floating” or “on-wheels” warehouses. When one stands back and reviews what has occurred, it
is accurate to say that, in recent times, technology has induced a
re-engineering of commerce. Literally a re-engineering of how civilization’s
commerce is conducted – all in the pursuit of productivity gains. Beyond improving the balance sheets of the
technology-deployed enterprises, the consequence of these phenomena greatly
advanced the standard of living within both developed and under-developed
countries. And that is not all. The technologies themselves have, and are,
enabling the creation of a host of new-era enterprises that are literally
interconnecting all mankind – with each other, and with the total sum of
human knowledge. In conjunction with
the ITP-applied e-commerce paradigm shift, we are literally re-engineering
our very civilization. A
re-engineering to which no nation, no culture, and even no religion will be
impervious. This reality has led WCCN to alter its focus for the 21st
Century. Henceforth, WCCN’s focus
will be restricted to analytical research into determining and calibrating
those variables that will have the most influence on this ongoing
Technology-Induced re-engineering of Civilization. The research-calibrated (technical and non-technical)
variables will serve as the basis for developing probability-weighted
scenarios to describe the construct of civilization in the future.
Poetically, one could say that the focus will center upon
prognosticating permutations in
technology’s ongoing effect on
civilization’s never-ending quest for “worldwide Way-of-Life” productivity
gains. The first scenario set will
have a two-decade timeframe horizon. Aside from shifting its focus from applying technology
to business, to the effects of technology on civilization, WCCN has radically
changed its business model. No longer will WCCN’s work product be available
to the general business public. Its work product will be restricted to
private clients who provide WCCN with work effort directed commissions. Simple pragmatism dictates so restrictive a business
model. WCCN has no intention of proselytizing the potentially enormous
benefits and nightmarish disasters
that technology will or will not visit upon our world during this century.
WCCN’s singular interest and intention is to work with those who understand
the good and the bad of the risks the world will be facing in this century,
and who have reason to be proactive in providing constructive influence on
the evolution of our civilization. WCCN plans to work with them to seek ways
to minimize the bad, and maximize the good. As a consequence of this business model shift, WCCN has
changed its name from WCCN Publishing to WCCN Research. By clicking on the appropriate button below, a bit more
about WCCN of the past, and of the present, is provided. We would appreciate contact information being
used only by persons who have viable, proactive, and funding interest in how
our civilization evolves. |
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About WCCN
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