Currently, the political situation in the United States is similar to the political chaos in the 1850s—moving toward the Civil War. Like the Civil War, it is a war between economic architectures, “crony” capitalism and Marx’s Communism. However, there is a better way, returning to the organizational economic architecture of the founding fathers, in particular Thomas Jefferson.
There is a second overriding issue, of which we are all
aware, the change from the Age of Print to the Digital Age that is creating
more cultural (and even biological) change than most people are aware of. Right now, the smart phone is becoming the
third lobe of our brains. It remembers
the phone numbers of our contacts, it enables us good asynchronous
communications with them (in the form of text messages and email), it tells us
the weather (current and future), it sings to us the music we want to hear, it
even tells us where to drive our vehicles, and so much more.
But it also knows where we are, what we are doing, what
we’re interested in, and who we are doing it with. In the near future it will enable politicians
and bureaucrats to control all our activities; that is unless advanced
artificial intelligence enables the technology to take over and reduce humanity
to slaves of the singularity.
Again, there is a better way. My book, Jeffersonian Economic
Architecture in the Digital Age discusses an alternative. It starts, in part 1, with a new theory of
the definition and source of economic value. In this part economic value
and wealth is defined as a direct result of knowledge. An increase in knowledge
increases the organization’s ability to survive and thrive. It goes on to demonstrate that this concept
and theory is very likely to be true.
Part 2 describes and discusses organizational
architecture. This architecture applies
equally to individuals and nations throughout human history. It starts with a static enterprise
architecture based on the IDEF0 model.
It details the functions and components of that architecture to show how
it interlinks these functions of input, process, output, control and mechanisms. It then adds a process to the architecture
using the OODA (observe, orient, decide and act) loop, to produce an
organizational architecture. Further, it
shows how by using this model any organization can become more effective in
what it’s producing and more cost-efficient in how it produces it.
Part 3 uses this organizational architecture model within
the historical context of humanity to support the reality of organizational
model.
Part 4 interlinks this organizational model with both the
Declaration of Independence—mostly written by Thomas Jefferson—The US
Constitution—of which he was involved—with recent technological concepts of
Services Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing to produce a
political/economic architecture that allows and enables everyone the “pursuit
of happiness” wherein “pursuit” means work at what they want to do and have a
talent for. It also means that there
will be a great many more millionaires and very few billionaires, that is, it
enables sharing the wealth rather than forcing the wealth through governmental
redistribution taxes.
While it would be nice to receive royalties from the sale of
this book, my purpose for writing it is my hope the people will take a serious
look at the political right and left, and technology change, and
consider the far-reaching consequences of not starting from the concepts in
this book to transform the political/economic system without having a pyric
civil war.
I would appreciate any thoughts or ideas you have on this
paper or on Jeffersonian Economic Architecture in the Digital Age.