Globalization?

Here’s what’s fascinating to me – within relatively short order, the discussion of SOA and a particular demonstration of the applicability of SOA concepts to this context is not primarily focused on the technology aspects of the challenge. The same “lessons learned” will eventually be recognized in technology evolution, much as they are in cultural and societal evolution. While listening to an NPR newscast on globalization, I started thinking about how the characteristics of economic globalization may in fact also emerge in a truly service oriented technology system. Where do incentives come into play? What about middlemen, traders, brokers?

I posit that many, if not all, of the evolutionary patterns of the trading and economic system can be abstrated into the context of SOA.