Digital Darwinism, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER FOUR

The third era of management

We have for many decades been living in a ‘post-industrial’ society. I believe we are now on the verge of a ‘post-managerial’ society, perhaps even a ‘post-organizational’ society.

GARY HAMEL

There is a much-embraced theory that we live in the fourth industrial age. First came steam and water power to create the first era, then came electricity to transform how we made things for the second, then computerization for the third several decades ago, and we now lie on the cusp of the fourth industrial revolution. This is Industry 4.0 where we use AI and robots, and robots that make robots, and the Internet of Things, and the Internet of Systems to Make Things.

This is indeed true, but another more interesting ...