The New Web part 4

In an internet population of over one billion users there is only a small portion involved in its evolutionary centre. Of this centre, not all are progressive forces. Over fifty percent of them are leeches. Leeches are parasites, living of the blood of other organic beings.

Leeches don’t care whose blood they suck. Leeches are the ones arguing when they encountered the first human beings walking on two feet: “Look, this is silly; you have to wade through this water on all fours. Everyone else is doing it and has been doing it for years. Because you wade in this water with only two limbs, I and my relatives have a reduced chance of fifty percent of ending up on one of them. Get back in here and even those chances.” Are leeches threatened? Not in a bit. There will be other four legged animals wading into the pool. And while humans have only two limbs in the water, the leeches still suck their blood none the less when they get the chance.

Leeches have their own way to deal with inevitable change and make sure they eat their evolutionary food too. Another small group is rubbing up the evolutionaries hoping to find some breadcrumbs of the benefits and advantages. They observe other’s success and will follow were they go, to live of the leftovers or to die hungry, in vain pursuit. Trust me, evolution is not a pretty sight.

Only a small portion of people is driving the internet evolution. And they are not unified, or even aware of each other. They, by the very nature of the web are distributed as well. Distributed geographically, which is less of a handicap than it used to be. But they are also distributed by interests, language, process and culture.

To find them you must search for small clusters of shared vision, small clusters of loosely collaborating individuals with strong and converging new ideas that work. Look for small group with differentiating opinions, addressing similar or related problems.

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