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SWOT
by Ray Strackbein
SWOT is an acronym used by strategic planners.
SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. The amazing thing strategic planning teaches us is that our strengths are our weaknesses and our weaknesses are our strengths. It also demonstrates how threats are opportunities and opportunities, threats.
At first glance, Y2K is a threat. Y2K threatens our infrastructure yet this threat can bring progress. We've been here before.
If we lose our infrastructure, it certainly won't be the first time. Not only are we shifting from the 20th century to the 21st century, but we are also shifting from the Industrial Age into the Information Age. The disruption of shifting from the Industrial Age to the Information Age will be similar to the disruptions that came before when we shifted from being hunters and gatherers to the Agricultural Age. New, better ways will come out the Y2K experience.
We survived transition in the past.
At one time, we were hunters and gatherers. We prospered and flourished. We over-hunted and over-gathered. Our food supply diminished. Too many people, too few resources: too few animals, too few plants.
As we continued to hunt and gather, we further diminished our infrastructure.
Life was a zero-sum game: if one person wins, another person loses: if you eat, I don't. The answer, of course, was to raise plants and animals for food. Raising our own food postponed the zero-sum game.
Everyone could eat. The Agricultural Age brought an abundance of food.
Agriculture also restored our infrastructure. When we no longer need to eat wild plants and animals, the wild lands flourished. Agriculture allowed us to feed more people on less land.
Y2K is part of this process. It threatens our infrastructure so we can look at the problem and develop another way of living. Y2K is not only a threat, but also an opportunity.
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