Beyond disrupting organizations and value as we know it, what is going to be the deep result of the use of Social Media? Many of us see it as at least making organizations more effective – faster, more informed etc. But I wonder. My growing feeling is that the widespread use of Social Media might soon enable us to gain the benefit of “Emergence”.

What you might ask is “Emergence”. Here is an example of how each of us as humans acquire the scale free use of language:

Here is the opening of a 3 part series on Emergence. I think I can see how its rules co joined with Social Software may help us take another evolutionary jump as we did when we acquired language itself 60,000 years ago.