The database, which ideally would have replaced part of the role of hierarchy through appropriate workflows, was used as a weapon of control and influence. Unfortunately, our culture is convinced that technology will, somehow, save us. We can create and make use of what we think of as useful technology all day long, but unless we become willing to truly deal with what is causal, not only will we not gain the potential benefits available to us as individuals and as a collective, we will continually use ever-more powerful technology for gaining power and control. Nothing outside of ourselves will create collaborative, learning cultures. Things can create ways of doing.
People create ways of being - and create the things that can create ways of doing.
The language of the future speaks to use from afar, bringing us impulses, energies and intuitions which we translate, through language, as best we can. We mistakenly think that using the language of the future will, somehow, create that future. We must become that future, embody it, walk it, not just talk it. The human specie has far more power and knowledge than we have wisdom. We can create incredible things - but I fear the consequences of our immaturity.