Two forces are converging on the global economy. AI is driving the cost of cognition toward zero. Climate change is driving the cost of physical stability upward. Together, they dissolve the foundations of the market economy we inherited. In the emerging economy, what matters is access to resources and the capacity to manage risk.
The history of human society is shaped by the history of human coordination. Over time, successful societies have evolved beyond the biological limits of unassisted human coordination (the Dunbar number of 150 people) which has necessitated the invention of collaboration technology to coordinate, control and coerce competing communities. It might be possible to map, as…
[Originally published on 6/1/10 on the Greenlight blog here] So, less than a month after filing the trademark application for the ‘Nexus One’, Google has launched its first hardware retail product direct to consumers and starts a direct assault on Apple’s dominance of the mobile sector. This is a great example of ‘speed to market’…
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