The Paradigm of Status Quo
The Vatican recently released an statement claiming to have decoded women’s liberation. The washing machine apparently unchained women around the world (mostly), and freed them for other, more independently minded, pursuits of happiness. Now, I have always thought that suffrage, coeducation, and WWII had made more sweeping contributions to this modern day fact of life. But, I have to admit that even if it does sound parochial to make a singular connection between appliances and gender equality, the washing machine certainly makes life easier to manage. In fact, I take mine for granted, to the point where I get aggravated when it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do; ‘now I have to get involved and actually do something about this stain… sigh’.
What does this have to do with Geodexy? It’s simple: the paradigm of status quo entails doing things in traditional ways; such that the processes, in and of themselves, of getting things done in those ways is ingrained in the routine, mentality, the very fiber of the person’s or the organization’s being. Like using a clipboard and a pencil to scribble information all over a form, and employing a data entry clerk to decipher it and type it up on the back end. These processes are labor- and time-intensive and prevent people from doing anything more useful. That data entry clerk is probably not daydreaming about going home and initiating the 12-step process of rubbing the laundry across a soapy, bumpy surface (see http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081111010031AAfOrXg for Ask Yahoo’s instructions for doing laundry sans machine). You can’t even buy a ‘bumpy surface’ specifically made for this process anymore. Just try to Google it.
Breaking the paradigm means adopting modern ways of doing things that reduces or even eliminates unneccessary processes. Modern methods sometimes go so far as to change the entire socio-economic landscape in ways that were probably never imagined, and certainly not planned - but that are, arguably, better. There’s a woman on the Board of Directors at Whirlpool - it’s a start. Ain’t technology grand?
No one is suggesting that Geodexy will empower a whole faction of people to do something more intriguing with their spare time (although it’s certainly possible). The parallel is that field workers and data entry clerks around the world CAN do something more productive with their WORK time.
