The capacity of learning, a necessity of these times

Nicolás Jodal closed the first day, with a talk that told us what happened in the last years with the Internet enterprises.
Jodal said that we have attended the end of the beginning. In this beginning, a model in which a good idea was enough to be able to quote at the stock exchange was working. Once this stage ends, we would be facing a period of massive exclusion, in which although many enterprises extinguish, there are a few types of enterprise business that disappear. 
Jodal outlined that although a year ago he considered that the enterprises dot com had all the advantages compared with the bricks' ones, in the last year the battled was even, and the traditional enterprises that adopt an Internet strategy are today competing with the dot com enterprises.
Jodal told us about the unexpected revolution that the open source represents, with a development scheme that works in spite of going against which intuitively can be thought. An example of this could be the success of the editor for Emac programmers in the 1980s, the Linux operative system and the Web server that occupies almost the 60% of Internet servers in the world: Apache. In order to explain how this success works, Jodal quoted Eric Raymond, author of The Catedral&The Bazar, a book that includes 'meditations on the open source and Linux by an accidental revolutionary'. Raymond Analyzes the mechanisms that allow this phenomenon's work and outlines that they would not be possible if the nets did not exist, this is to say, and he is based on the people's interconnection. Raymod outlines the human tendency to collaborate with those things that are interesting as another aspect. Apart from that, he proposes an abundance economy instead of a scarce economy (in which we have been educated).
Although in both economies the people look for a status, Raymond says, in the abundance economy the one who has more resources does not get it, but the one who is more generous does. Generous in those things that there is a lack, time and knowledge, Jodal adds.
Talking about processes that go against intuition, Jodal told us about the Napster case, a small program designed by a 19-year-old boy that discovered a new way of doing things and in a little more than a year he could build the biggest musical database in the world that challenged the records industry. Another unexpected revolution.
Jodal concluded that without any doubt we are living in a time when processes that go against our intuition, that are based on the people interconnection, happen. The important thing is to take advantage of the opportunity that this generates, and to be able to re-formulate the business. How can we find this opportunity? It is simple, Jodal says, it depends on our own capacity of learning.

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