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The rate of change has increased so much that our imagination can’t keep up.”

Alvin Toffler • Future Shock

Nadella has pointed out: In a world where computing power is nearly limitless, “the true scarce commodity is increasingly human attention.”

John Doerr • Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth

Alvin Tofﬂer said, “The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

Technopoly

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Technological progress has shifted scarcity for humanity. When we were foragers, food was scarce. During the agrarian age, it was land. Following the industrial revolution, capital became scarce. With digital technologies scarcity is shifting once more. We need to figure out how to live in The World After Capital in which the only scarcity is our... See more

Albert Wenger • World After Capital

FROM ATOMS, TO BITS, TO GENES

Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

We live in a knowledge economy. What you know—and your ability to bring it to bear in any given circumstance—is what creates economic value for you. This was primarily driven by the advent of personal computers and the internet, starting in the 1970s and accelerating through today.

But what happens when that very skill—knowing and utilizing the... See more

Dan Shipper • The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy

Joaquin Aguirre

James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

Humans will lose their economic and military usefulness, hence the economic and political system will stop attaching much value to them. 2. The system will still find value in humans collectively, but not in unique individuals. 3. The system will still find value in some unique individuals, but these will be a new elite of upgraded superhumans