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The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

By an overwhelming margin, technology experts and stakeholders participating in a survey fielded by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center believe that innovative forms of online cooperation could result in more efficient and responsive for-profit firms, non-profit organizations, and government agencies by the year 2020.
A highly engaged set of respondents that included 895 technology stakeholders and critics participated in the online, opt-in survey. In this canvassing of a diverse number of experts, 72% agreed with the statement:

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Mar 31st, 2010 at 02:16:51 PM EST
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Need to emphasis the word "could" in there.

Bureaucracy is a human invention to prevent change. Eventually the change is prevented to ludicrous lengths. The infamous "tally sticks" depository of the British Exchequer is the poster child. They kept making and storing the things for hundreds of years passed any conceivable use.

And when they did, finally, get rid of the things in 1834 ... they burned the Parliament building down.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Wed Mar 31st, 2010 at 05:19:04 PM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 1 April | 94 comments (94 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)