Knowledge As A Trade Commodity

I first published this piece in Dec 1993. That was the last time my first wife and I could have described ourselves as lovers. The family gathering at Christmas that year my youngest son always calls our “Shooting Party”, after a wonderful movie with James Stewart, depicting the Edwardian culture literally falling apart in the last months before WWI changed Britain and Europe forever!

Anyway, in this piece I wrote about the rise of the “Information Age”. See for yourself how close I got with some of these concepts (many from Peter Drucker, as you will see).

I was a little bit off with “Educational Entrepreneur”; these days we would probably say Infopreneur. 

Did I foresee the rise of social networking in the section of “The Human Element”? I think so 🙂

Drucker was spot on in talking about New Social Classes. He described perfectly the high wage and social status of those who live and work in Silicon Valley. 

I called my writings then Applied Philosophics™. I still have the trademark for that name in the UK. 

The promised knowledge and skills will be coming to you, via this website…

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