The Golden Rule of the NEW ERA

Introduction ( *Absolutely Virus-safe and FREE )

While most of us are still wondering what the new millennium will bring to us all, the new millennium is with us.

The imagined Y2K catastrophe did not happen as many predicted. It was estimated about US$400 billion was spent to counter such an attack. After the Y2K scare, let us now look back at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century.

New technologies - microelectronics, computers, telecommunications, new man-made materials, robotics, medical science, biotechnology - are interacting to create a new and very different economic world. Advances in the basic sciences underlying these areas have created breakthrough technologies that have allowed the emergence of a whole set of big new industries: computers, Internet, semiconductors, telecommunications, lasers. These same technologies provide opportunities to reinvent old industries: Internet retailing supplants conventional retailing; cellular telephones are everywhere. New things can be done: genetically engineered plants and animals appear; a global economy becomes possible for the first time in human history. It is an era of human intellectual industries.

It may be difficult for many of us to accept the reality as we discover that the old foundations of success are gone. For all of human history, the source of success has been the control of natural resources - land, gold, oil. Suddenly the answer is "knowledge." The world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates, owns nothing tangible - no land, no gold or oil, no factories, no industrial processes, no armies. For the first time in human history the world's wealthiest man owns only knowledge. Yet knowledge has never been studied as a science. Enter "Knowledge Science" in the New Millennium. In the new century, knowledge will be respected and studied and researched as the single most important new science subject.

In short, we have to knowledgize everything. With the help of the Internet, as we Internetise our businesses and knowledgize our information and experience, new wealth is created through such intellectual way. Unless we move fast, we face the risk of being left behind.