The Nature of the Future

HyperCities

The socialstructed world is a world in which a few amplified individuals can remake the world.

management, prototype your idea, then stand back and see if it sinks or swims.

This doesn’t necessarily mean working less; it means doing work on our own terms instead of someone else’s.

Amateurs armed with good strategies (thinking skills) and access to the computational power of machines turn out to be a winning combination.

To construct a perfect scenario would require having answers to all the uncertainties—and if we had those answers, we wouldn’t need to create scenarios!

players are always operating at the edge of their abilities; if the task is too easy, the game is not interesting, but if it is too hard, they simply can’t play. So they are constantly failing and working to get better, climbing to the next level.

and also indicating which politicians have a voting record that reflects these priorities.

cognitive divide. Those who are self-driven or whose social networks drive them to acquire more and more knowledge and to consume more and more rich content will be able to increase their cognitive capital, while those who do not possess such drive or whose social settings do not encourage such accumulation of knowledge will be left farther and far