We're a Network

More and more I realize we're a Network -- and it's the skills at administering that system (and the natural resiliency built into that system) that matters most.

Here's one great article from The New Republic:
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/99521/america-world-power-declinism

And another good one on how the changes happening to how we train and recruit new workers:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204422404576596630897409182.html

Many of the changes in the 2nd article date back to something mentioned in the 1st -- when faced with a stagnant economy circa 1987 American business began a ruthless restructuring that has maintained our share of the world GDP at around 25%.  But we haven't completed the "rewiring" of our Network to from one dominated by long-lived Corporations to one in which jobs and companies have much shorter "half-lives" before they decay.