Hyperconnectivity, a must see (video)
http://youtu.be/vutkDpFPQNg
ROBERT GREENHILL: Hyperconnectivity is going to be for the 21st century what the internal combustion engine was for the 20th.
ERIC HIPPEAU: Everything/everyone is connected all the time and the networks are increasingly large. The number of people that you're connected with is growing exponentially.
MATT TURK: Everything becomes data. Your physical activity becomes data. Your peers become data and the data is moved to the Cloud, but is processed and compared to other devices. It's not just what you do, but what everybody else does, which keeps making the system smarter and smarter.
DANAH BOYD: A lot of really challenging questions emerge – questions about security, questions about privacy, and questions about how people get to be interacting in an equitable manner.
JEFF JARVIS: I've realised kind of recently, that technology leads to efficiency overgrowth and that ultimately, we grapple with the implications of that.
MARK GRAFF: Literacy is the first technology and nobody has 100 percent literacy rate, so even in that primary technology, people are left behind. How are people going to adapt when there are three classes? There are the 'have's, the have not's, and the hyperconnected'.
JEREMY LEVINE: It's rapidly increasing the speed at which ideas flow around the world and competition intensifies. When someone comes up with a new idea on one side of the planet, within seconds that idea propagates all the way to the other side of the planet.
ERIC HIPPEAU: Another thing that hyperconnectivity is doing is that it's disseminating whether people like new products or don't like new products, at the speed of light – literally. It's very much changing the way that you approach product development. In fact, you're probably asking your customers to help you with product development, given that you are now connected with them.
JEFF JARVIS: Sharing information at some level even becomes an act of generosity and not sharing could be considered an act of selfishness.
MATTHIAS ERMER: It's all about openness and it's not trying to own or protect any data. The customers own the data and it's up to them to decide whether they want to share the data, and how they want to share the data.
DANAH BOYD: And the idea of connectivity means that people get to hear voices around the globe that are different than theirs. They get to be exposed to information that they never had access to before.
RAYMOND J. BAXTER: We can't put the genie back in the bottle. Our information is out there. What we have to learn are 'what are the social conventions and the legal' conventions that we are all going to have to adopt in order to retain our dignity, our privacy, and our autonomy. That's what the World Economic Forum is good at – it's providing a platform to bring all of those different actors together to try to reach some solutions to very important problems.