MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES for the 21st Century by Peter F. Drucker

Author:Peter F. Drucker
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-10-12T14:00:00+00:00

The Lessons of History

The current Information Revolution is actually the fourth Information Revolution in human history. The first one was the invention of writing five thousand to six thousand years ago in Mesopotamia; then—independently but several thousand years later—in China; and some fifteen hundred years later still, by the Maya in Central America. The second Information Revolution was brought on by the invention of the written book, first in China, perhaps as early as 1300 b.c., and then, independently, eight hundred years later, in Greece, when Peisistratos, the tyrant of Athens, had Homer’s epics—only recited until then—copied into books. The third Information Revolution was set off by Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press and of movable type between 1450 and 1455, and by the contemporaneous invention of engraving. We have almost no documents on the first two of these revolutions, though we know that the impact of the written book was enormous in Greece and Rome as well as in China. In fact, China’s entire civilization and system of government still rest on it. But on the third Information Revolution, printing and engraving, we have abundant material. Is there anything we can learn today from what happened five hundred years ago?

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