[LINK] "Advancing Australia as a Digital Economy"

[Jan Whitaker]

At 09:07 AM 13/06/2013, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>An economy is more than "digital" technology. It's about creating wealth
>through the development and use of products and services that people
>want. The real wealth will come  from products and services that can
>only exist because of the use of "digital" technology. Very little
>wealth is likely to be created by replacing existing mechanisms with
>"digital" mechanisms. In fact, it is likely that the use of "digital"
>technology as replacement mechanisms will result in less economic
>activity - it will be cheaper and need fewer people.

Another problem that I see more and more is the assumption that 
because something has been written or communicated that a problem has 
been solved, when absolutely no action has been taken to actually 
achieve anything other than writing and communicating. For example, 
if there is a study done or a report written, like this one about 
becoming a digital economy, whatever that is, it's like there is some 
magic that happens and 'poof', there it is. Of course 'they' want it 
to happen without the time and effort and most importantly, people to 
actually work. It's not just in government, either. I think this is 
one of the problems with the lack of customer assistance in major 
stores today. Focus is on automating back office instead of putting 
resources into helping people actually buy things. That explains why 
people don't bother going to shops so often any more. Why bother?

I think 'virtual' has taken over too much and we are losing the 
mental concept of 'do'.

Jan



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