ADSactly on ADSACTLY - Creating Value - Part 8
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Creating Value - Part 8
In the last seven sequels we wrote about the early beginnings of creating values, continued with the rise of craftsmen, explorers and merchants. We explained the importance of the first manual machines and how it all led to industrialization, continued with how oil exploitation business reached its heights and we ended with the birth of corporations and how it led to blooming of finance services. Today we'll continue further. If you haven't read the first seven parts, please find them here:
ADSactly - Creating value Part 1
ADSactly - Creating value Part 2
ADSactly - Creating value Part 3
ADSactly - Creating value Part 4
ADSactly - Creating value Part 5
ADSactly - Creating value Part 6
ADSactly - Creating value Part 7
When the corporations got so big that the entire world became "incorporated", the economy became completely dependent on them. These dehumanized monsters started to employ millions and millions of people. The corporate machine became more important than not only a single individual but also large groups of people. The value created by such monstrosities skyrocketed, as well as the need for even greater profits. Ordinary people started buying tiny, little chunks of corporations. The world became big business. Everyone looked to become financially independent from dividends and differences of buying and selling shares. Today, they tell us that governments still have more real power than multinational corporations. However, it is highly questionable.
With so many people incorporated into the financial system, the need for sorting the enormous amounts of data became the top priority. Information age dawned from the shadows of corporations and finance sector. Yet again, a new class of people comes on top. The computer entrepreneurs, the Internet wizards, social network gurus and an ocean full of likes starts to provide the new value. It happened right at the time when things became seemingly stable and there was no foreseeable direction for the further creation of new values. The information age provided a brand new vision, a glowing light for next generations. It probably saved us from unemployment, huge unrests and global wars. Millions got employed because of digital technologies, human race found a new way to create value and bravely continue to strive for new borders. It turned our eyes toward completely new horizons.
The information age provided an enormous amount of perceived new value. It dwarfed everything ever seen before. The pixels on the screen in front of our eyes became worth more than all the food ever produced by hunters and gatherers. Isn't that absolutely unbelievable?
However, sitting in front of a monitor for endless hours is not the healthiest way of living and we, as a society, pay that price. This is the first time in history that people can do literary everything from their armchairs. Nobody even needs to take a walk to the groceries anymore. It is not a healthy prospect for the future. How many of us will be able to survive if Internet and mobile telephones go off during a sunny day? The information age brought along a ton of health issues. Pharmaceutical corporations cash in billions on account of that fact.
Health, medicine and food should have never been submitted to profit and greed of faceless corporations. The huge systems may be beneficial for ore production or car industry or computer manufacturing or anything else not directly involving human well-being. Whatever we eat and cure ourselves with, should have stayed outside that system. I seriously ask myself how could we be so stupid to let huge, dehumanized systems decide on the general direction of our health and well-being? We should've known better.
How do we challenge health issues of the information age? Can we reverse human health business and take it out of the claws of profit, greed and dividends? What do you do to counter the negative effects of IT technology way of life on your body?
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This is well written, I like the flow of the article up to the main point. It's interesting that yes corporations have taken over and everyone depends on them through their Paychecks or through dividends. The technological age definitely saved us, computer entrepreneurs profited big as a result. The next age is the decentralized age, where the power returns back to the people. I believe that yes with more technology people may get more and more unhealthy; however, I think people are finally starting to wake up. We are in the Information Age now. I post a ton about health and nutrition and unconventional wisdom about what to put and not put in your body. I am optimistic about our future!
The information age is perhaps one of the most delicate ages the world has ever seen and will remain one of the most competitive ages ever
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That’s true! And it’s just in the early beginnings. Imagine when the technology advances to the point where your mind makes any orders, any purchases. Sometimes I wish we were taken 100 years back. It’s just a matter of time when we loose the power and everything we depend on will vanish. Just for a few days.
When it comes to government and corporations some people are saying that our government is being controlled by corporations and that the military and government is doing the bidding a of corporations. I think that while corporations having enormous amount of money allowing them to use it to attempt to leverage influence. They can donate to campaigns, hire lobbyists, and do other things to attempt to do this. To say it has no influence on our government would be naive, but it is also not likely that they have a full power over governments. Perhaps I’m mistaken.
On this very informative content of @adsactly, it's told us a lot of things about creating value to something, like food if it is sufficient people will always value for what have they seen from that monitors such what IT's does, yet if time comes when food is not that convenient to have is the time people tend to give a value of how important to have food. Think of these, we can live without that IT's technology, but if we talk about food we can't. It is better for Health companies to value people's health rather that collecting profit, greed and dividends what matters most is you cure someones health issues. One of the most common bad effect of IT's is from the health, I provide you a simple example, like when we set down for an hour/hours day by day to watch movies or whatever it is rather than exercise. We should always value health than entertainment.
I wouldn't put all the blame on corporations for the decline in health in some areas, like making things so easy that you don't have to walk to the grocery store anymore; in many cases, people have a choice between various options and they sometimes choose the one that's more convenient and then choose not to exercise in other areas.
The efficiency and logistics that corporations manage make many things possible that otherwise aren't cost feasible, like maybe the development of some medicines or the trade of some foods that aren't in season, say, where I am.
But then we get to things we can blame or be suspicious of corporations of doing, like the recent essay noting that cures for diseases are bad for profits, but ongoing treatment is great for profits. This is where human and corporate interests sharply diverge. The ongoing opium epidemic is probably an example of this; debilitatingly addictive treatments are a corporation's dream. Smallpox, one of the deadliest diseases in history, would have never been eradicated if these corporate pigs were in charge. They'd weaken the vaccine and make it required to take annually if they could, using the disease's lethality as advertising.
But then what is the solution? Make these things completely managed by government? I don't think most people want the government having too much control over this either... But I would say for some industries, corporate greed is blinding them to the bigger picture and so they need greater transparency and accountability to the public in some way...
As I read this I can't help but think of the movie Wall-E. Is this the life that humans are destined to create for themselves? I know it is a "silly" animated movie but if you stop to think about the messages presented it is kind of scary. Humans are ravaging the earth's resources every minute of every day. I think we would be kidding ourselves if we didn't think that there could come a time when the earth is no longer habitable. We are already physically on our way to being in the same situation as the people on the ship, just sitting in the lazy chair doing nothing. Not even lifting a finger for more than to push a button. Technology is a double-edged sword that at some point may smite us down and at the end of the day, it will be our own doing. Let's be the generation that sparks change. Let's be the ones that say our children will have a planet and health to enjoy.
As for the greed of corporations holding people hostage for healthcare and medicine, all I can do is feel shame for those that would put someone into poverty in order to let them have the gift of life.
It is easy to get lost in the luxury of the perfect world we have created as a society. I am a teacher and I love technology, I use it every day in my classroom. It's simple, it makes my life easier. From showing a video to demonstrate an experiment to send a test made in a google form (that self-grade), is just easier to teach using technology. But... my students (born in the informational age) don't know how to think for themselves. It is sad. If they have a question, they just google it with their phones, iPads or laptop. There are lots of pros and lots of cons regarding technology, including health risks. The risk I see is that the youngest generations don't know how we were able to build all this utopic world of information. It just make me chill everytime I think what my students could do if the don't have any device for one day. I think I can survive, in fact I do it every once in a while, turn off all my devices and just go out for a walk or interact with people, but even in parties and at the gym they use their phones. When I sugest not using technology for an assigment I can feel the hate from my 9th graders and they literally cry for 90minutes without tech. I live in Venezuela and working out and sports are very popular, but still lots of teenager are inmerse in their perfect technological world they created for themselves in many popular platforms. So far, direct health issues caused for abuse of technology are not an issue for the youngest generation but we know they are there. Solutions to this? I don't have it and I would love somebody can help me figure this out. Thanks!
The digital revolution has changed our lives. It is a fact. What once seemed fantastic was a reality. Millions of people use the benefits of civilization and the digital world. Every day people spend a lot of time in social networks and other similar things. We began to create new values, values that can not be denied. These values are virtual.
Over time, the virtual world becomes bigger. Digital technology is evolving and adding people countless virtual opportunities. Never in history has so much information been available to a common man. Even more. Now we can make money even without leaving home. We can spend this money even without leaving home. We buy food, equipment or even furniture without leaving home. The era of "home" people has come. This definitely looks impressive. But how are things really in fact.
Together with these great opportunities, we became more dependent. Dependent on their gadgets and their virtual lives. Our life has become less private. For a lot of money, coproducts are bought up by our personal data. They use targeted advertising and impose their will on us. They control the desires of ordinary users. They get huge profits for this. This is a black mirror of modern digital technology. The block chain changes the rules of the game. What will be next?
This is probably one of my favorites so far. Great job @adsactly!
The age of information came like a savior for mankind. It did us so many good things. We are connected with people from all over the world, we can see all the art in the world, all places, etc. The most important thing is that we have knowledge database on the internet and it's accessible to anyone on the internet. So, today you can say that being stupid is a choice.
We created a lot of value, but this is two-sided sword. We are much lazier now, and our physical body is suffering a lot from much less moving as we used to do it. There comes the question, what we need to do now.
First of all, we need better education system, and then we will raise new generations ready to face the world. As we're not doing that today.
Anyway, I really enjoyed the article. Thanks for sharing. Much love!
The only way to stop them is to stop buying their products, Nowadays they are so powerful that they can afford to buy the whole nation, they can brainwashed people, they can influence their own ideology of materialism. People needs to wake up, but thanks to the revolutionized social media platform like STEEMIT.COM it changes peoples lives by knowing the truth and enlightening people up, thanks @adsactly for such informative piece. :)
Sweet dude!