{"id":1593,"date":"2012-05-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/may\/16\/you-say-you-want-a-revolution\/"},"modified":"2012-05-16T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T08:00:00","slug":"you-say-you-want-a-revolution-are-we-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/you-say-you-want-a-revolution-are-we-in-one\/","title":{"rendered":"You Say You Want a Revolution: Are we in one?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Remember the heady dot.com days circa 1999? We thought we were reinventing business, forming a New Economy, revolutionizing the essential nature of commerce. In our dreams! By late 2001 the bubble had burst, and what we thought was a new <em>paradigm<\/em> for business&mdash;the World Wide Web&mdash;turned out to be little more than a new <em>marketing channel<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&rsquo;t get me wrong&mdash;I&rsquo;m not trying to disparage the power and importance of the Web. After all, the Web, and the Internet in general, have deeply affected so many aspects of business today. It&rsquo;s hard to remember the time when you had to talk to a teller to use a bank or a stockbroker to trade stocks! But we were wrong that the Web was a revolution. It wasn&rsquo;t a paradigm shift.<\/p>\n<p>Fundamentally, the rise of the Internet was more <em>evolutionary<\/em> than <em>revolutionary<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Not wanting to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the heady dot.com days circa 1999? We thought we were reinventing business, forming a New Economy, revolutionizing the essential nature of commerce. In our dreams! By late 2001 the bubble had burst, and what we thought was a new paradigm for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}