The Future of the Telecommunications Infrastructure Scenario:
Africa, Incubator of the Old and The New Code

The clock, the key invention of the modern industrial age, suggests an orderly universe that can be understood as being divided into precise mathematical units. The machine metaphor for man and nature currently rules in the West.

Clock-thinking produces terror in the Western mind that’s on its way to a late appointment (or for that matter, on the way to the millennium).

The non-Western mind thinks,
“The party starts when I get there”.

Being of both minds. I developed the following scenario:

Africa Ascendant

Global personal re-coding and technological breakthroughs propel us into a more humane world. African people pave the way for the new age, spearheading many of the changes that help make multicultural world work.

The following events line out how this scenario unfolds: