The Jump point

I’m reading “Jump Point” by Tom Hayes as he predicts the explosion of nodes within networks with a reproducible velocity that will create a point in time in the next few years(2011) that will be a very recognizable leap or “Jump Point” to a whole new way of global existence. A “Jump Point” is the moment when an emerging culture becomes the dominant culture.

I am fascinated at how he moves from a technical infrastructure to an incredible explosion of a social or people structure based on massive networks of affinity. In other words, when technology found purpose it became the platform for viral, relational connectivity. All of this is evidenced in a radical decentralization of technology and relationships though scores of Facebook, Twitter and My space type formats. But as he points out, we are in for a new normal.

My favorite quote in the whole book is “the edge dissolves the center”.

I will elaborate in future blog posts, but here are ten truths about the “Jump Point”…
1. You can’t fight the network
2. Social communities are the new marketplace
3. Use the “Free” word
4. Reward attention
5. Break the time barrier
6. Make everything “mashable”
7. Think abundantly
8. Compete on trust
9 . Become contagious
10. Pandenomics-the network favors blockbusters.

There are truck loads of potential applications to unwrap in ministry at the “jump point”. And while solid biblical theology never changes, we will see shifts in methodology so subtle that our existing institutional formats will dissolve almost without notice.

Stay tuned. Let’s unwrap this stuff.

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~ by Bob Seymore on August 18, 2009.