OGDEN'S LAWS, PART II 

LAW # 11:

Knowledge is Holistic. A single specialized academic degree will soon be considered a sigh of brain damage that is terminal at the PhD level. Because of its specialization, it won't provide entry into the kindergarden of the future.

LAW # 12:

In the last age you learned the old three "R's". Now learn the new 3 R's: Ram, Rom & Run. The next lesson will be the three C's: Conflict, Crisis, Change. Kindergarden has just opened.

LAW # 13:

Deregulation will hit unions. When automatci check off of dues by employers is eliminated, death will come on swift wings. In Canada the majority of new jobs are already coming from companies with less than five employees. This will not find favor with politicans, as such companies will not make large political donations to curry favor.

LAW # 14:

When time, land, space or the marketplace is uncharted, there are no maps, there are no rules. Hence no teachers, only rare knowledge navigators.

LAW # 15:

Industrial, agricultural and stone-age instincts are not automatically eradicated when not only the rules, but the very game itself is changed. We are no longer playing baseball: The game is now Jaialai and very few even know how to spell it.

LAW # 16:

The more shocking the message, the more information contained therein.

LAW # 17:

Dry static book knowledge can no longer compete with dynamic visuals in an age when pictures travel at the speed of light.

LAW # 18:

Produce what sells, not sell what you produce.

LAW # 19:

An army of Techno-peasants or Millionaires can be created with the next new idea

LAW # 20:

True revolutions in science result not from predetermined paths but from those who do not know what they are looking for, where they are going, (Copernicus, Newton, Einstein) or how to find it, until, through serendipity, they trip into the new landscape.

Conceived in Principal, February/March 1989 on the very same beaches in Portugal from whence Vasco De Gamma and Magellen, guided by the latest technology of their day, the Astrolabe, left on their epic voyages of discovery. Slightly amended June 29, 1989.

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