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        <title>The real value of the information age: restoring humanity to the way we work</title>
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          <![CDATA[In The Great Big Opportunity Matt Salisbury talks about subsidiarity &#8212; the idea that decisions are better made where they have immediate effect: There has been a lot of talk about the advent of the &#8220;information age.&#8221; For the first time since the industrial revolution, we have experienced a real disruptive change in business context. The [&#8230;]]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>In <em><a href="http://www.solidaritywithsalisbury.com/web-log/2012/5/8/the-great-big-opportunity.html">The Great Big Opportunity</a></em> Matt Salisbury talks about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity">subsidiarity</a> &mdash; the idea that decisions are better made where they have immediate effect:</p>
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<p>There has been a lot of talk about the advent of the &#8220;information age.&#8221; For the first time since the industrial revolution, we have experienced a real disruptive change in business context. The age of communication is now, but if you pay too much attention to the technology, you&#8217;ll miss what&#8217;s really happening.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s &#8220;really happening&#8221; is that we now have the chance to work like humans instead of machines.  Communication and information&#8217;s advance is restoring subsidiarity to our brave new world.</p>
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<p>I like his conclusion:</p>
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<p>Ultimately, the information age is not about the information. It&#8217;s about human dignity and happiness informing how, where, and why we work.</p>
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