Coming Soon: HumptyRedux.com

Welcome

Welcome to www.humptyredux.com.  This is what we call a placeholder page, to greet you and give you something to read as we work to get the content for this site together.  It's a little like the cartoons before the movies, which most of us are too young to remember, me included.  Or like the orchestra tuning up as the stragglers make their way to their seats.  I've had a lot of fun blogging on UnwireMyCity - where I mixed my commentary between comments on wireless networks and comments on what we could do with the networks and the changes they would bring.  I finally decided to split that commentary into two websites:  1) my newly launched website, MetroNetIQ is an on-line resource for government and business participants in the new field of metropolitan broadband;  and 2) my website yet to come at this URL, which will be a discussion about what life will look like for us after the Internet is ubiquitous, how we will use this new metropolitan broadband infrastructure, and what it all means to our culture and way of life.  Please, do come back in Spring 2006 for the launch of this exciting project.

HUMPTY REDUX

In January 2006, I wrote an article for a new Japanese website, which captured my thoughts on cultural and technological change, emergence, and convergence.  Entitled Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again: Emergence and Convergence on the Road to Cultural Reintegration, the article foreshadowed my writing on this upcoming site, as well as my writing on this future website.  My writing will be translated into Japanese, and I thought it important to capture the content and conversation in English for my non-Japanese speaking readers.

Why Humpty Dumpty?

Humpty Dumpty struck me as an appropriate metaphor for a culture that has been turned upside down, effectively thrown off the wall, and broken into pieces by technological change that acts as a meat grinder to our historic institutions.  With so much Creative Destruction going on, how will we survive?  I argue that we are more adaptable than we think and that with intention, we can not only survive, but thrive.  Putting our lives back together after change is a matter of attitude and awareness, of recognizing and adapting to new circumstances with an intentional plan to take advantage of these changes as the master of our own universe, as the primary actor and controller of our life, rather than as a scared person reacting in a victim/survival mode, or as a blind person living in the past, blissfully unaware of what changes are transforming the landscape that we call home.

What's the Plan?

I'll capture my thoughts and observations on cultural and technological change, and I hope to enjoy a fruitful dialogue with my readers, from the West and the East.  I think that what we can do working together to put in place a suitable, new, adaptive and fluid culture based on basic human value will be astounding.  Please email me at john.cooper@metronetiq.com if you would like to be in on the ground floor and participate as a Founding Contributor.  And that's a contributor as in ideas and time, not money.