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The Virtual and the Platonic in Cloud Collaboration

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It was almost certainly never in Plato’s purview that some of his more weighty ideas would find their way into expression most fully when civilization entered a digital age. That is how it seems to be happening, however, when virtual reality becomes a representation of the every day in a more perfect state, and in this way, almost comes close to touching the Platonic . When organizations begin to find ways to develop their identities, and create themselves as virtual communities through cloud collaboration and other elaborate Networked IT environments, it is a new way of being in the world.

In the Platonic ideal, the most useful metaphor for him was the cave. In Plato’s Cave , there exists perfect versions of everything. Whatever is, it is in an idealized form in this cave, so that a perfect love lives there, and so does perfect justice, perfect honor, and so on. What happens outside the cave, when someone falls in love, this is but a version of the ideal, and can never reach the state of perfection because it exists in the world, and is subject to the forces of gravity, like everything else. In an online version of an organization, however, the ideal is always much closer than in any other version, because the cloud networks are mutable, and subject to vast changes rather easily and quickly. This suggests enormous possibilities for the future of how human beings respond and behave in groups in these new constructions of organizational behavior.

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