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But there's a lot of overhead to creating and maintaining that network; GLG has to find people, vet their expertise, and, in recent years, find a way to ensure that people don't share information they shouldn't. The expert network business has gone through two booms: GLG started in 1998, with an original model of publishing deeply researched indust... See more

A lack of authenticity is the consumer's main gripe with the influencer world.

But since the mid-1970s we’ve been increasingly aware of the limits and problems with this model, and it’s put us on an energy diet. Now when we invent something cool, we often have to say “too bad the energy requirements are so high.”

Design for emergence is open-ended. There’s no room for surprise in high modern or user-centered design, unless the design is exapted for an unintended use (see “Design Exaptation” in the bottom right quadrant of the 2x2 above). Meanwhile, a key characteristic of design for emergence is that the end design may be something that the original designe... See more

Swaypay wants retailers to pay you instead of paying Google, Facebook, and Amazon.