Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
crystals of imagination.
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
it helps us create a society of “phony geniuses,” a society in which the capacities of individuals greatly surpass their individual knowledge.
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
“for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures.”4
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
transaction cost theory or new institutional economics.
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
information emerges naturally in the steady states of physical systems that are out of equilibrium.
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
in a world where knowledge and knowhow are trapped in social networks and are difficult to copy, we should expect large differences in countries’ abilities to crystallize imagination, since differences in the knowledge and knowhow available in a given country should be reflected in the set of products that each country is able to produce.