Future Perfect

At Whole Foods, no one is allowed to make more than nineteen times the wages of the average worker. (For U.S. companies, the average ratio is more than four hundred to one.)

peer-to-peer application architecture is one in which each node, or logical entity, in the global application (consisting of all of the interoperating peer nodes) may act as either client or server, whether in turn (serial roles) or simultaneously (parallel roles), [and] may be termed a peer-to-peer application architecture, and such applications a

After all, peer progressives have a very clear set of values that draw upon the older tradition of progressive politics. They believe in equality, participation, diversity. There’s nothing laissez-faire about their agenda for progress.

What the peer progressive wants to do is reward people for coming up with good ideas—and reward them for sharing those ideas.

The market that surrounds most corporations is a diverse web of competition and collaboration. But look inside the corporate walls and you’ll find a Legrand Star. This has always been a contradiction at the heart of Hayek-influenced libertarianism; it prioritizes decentralized decision making over all other configurations except when it comes to th

The people who most interested me were wary of centralized control, but they were not free-market libertarians. They

When groups can filter their news by ideological persuasion, the long-term tendency is toward increased polarization and decreased consensus. Individuals’ interpretations of the world get amplified and not challenged; the common ground of social agreement shrinks.

“Vanishing Point theory of news”: Our interest in a subject is in inverse proportion to its distance (geographic, emotional or otherwise) from us. For instance, the news that my daughter got a scraped knee on the playground today means more to me than a car bombing in Kandahar. Anderson’s framework points to something crucial in understanding how l

They are decentralized in their control systems; no single individual or group is “in charge” of the system. The networks are dense, in that they involve a large number of participants, with many interconnections between them. They are diverse, in that the individual participants that make up the network bring different values or perspectives to th