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The Machine is Us/ing Us - Externalization trend

Published by Nigel Green on December 20, 2007 in Externalization. 0 Comments

Perhaps the most compelling observations of the Externalization trend comes  from Professor Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas Sate University. He created the now famous “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us.”  movie which was posted on YouTube:

Here’s a link to a rather unpolished movie of Michael Wesch explaining ‘The Machine Is Us’. Badly shot and unedited but worth a quick viewing... Continue reading

Carl’s words on Externalization

Published by Nigel Green on December 19, 2007 in Externalization. 0 Comments

Below is an excerpt from a post on the Capgemini CTO blog by Carl Bate. I think it’s a good summary of what we mean by Externalization …

“The second IT revolution is already happening -of course it really started with the Web - and perhaps is best formalised now in industry terms through the Software as a Service model.

But this alone describes a ‘how’ and doesn’t really express the... Continue reading

Welcome to the Externalization discussion

Published by Nigel Green on December 5, 2007 in Externalization. 2 Comments

Please post your questions or observations on this topic as comments to this post. The category administrator may then decide to create a separate post (discussion thread) based on the popularity of the subsequent discussion. Continue reading