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The age of the automobile and mass production was dominated by engineers and operational managers focused on efficiency. The Dark Ages of financialization were dominated by financial managers focused on quarterly returns. The new age of ubiquitous computing and networks will be dominated by entrepreneurs focused on high quality at scale. This is wh
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
But today things are different. One path to reinventing government through a more entrepreneurial approach has been brought forward by Tim O’Reilly, who coined the notion of “government as a platform”[401]. The vision is inspired by the strategy of the most successful tech companies. The likes of Amazon, Facebook, and Apple do not only operate appl
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Today, networks offer a new way to get things done. Any collection of people can pursue ideas together without organizational authority or hierarchies.* When value creation is institutional and hierarchical, the vast majority of people are treated as cogs, dispensable and replaceable. But when value creation is networked, the distinct ideas, judgme
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fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
less of an organisation delivering for people and more of an open-source social movement, or as Leonard puts it, ‘instead of us being the hero, being a hero among heroes.’110
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
cities should be designed for people,
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
It doesn’t mean that governments have no role to play—quite the contrary. But my overall impression is that we’ve witnessed a sharp reversal in who has the capacity to explore, discover, and deliver. In the past, only governments could break the constraints and pull it off at a large scale. Now it looks like governments (at least in the West) are s
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However, as most anthropologists will attest, humans are wired to live in curated collectives, as opposed to mass societies. So people formed new tribes within a larger society in order to find a “place” where they belonged. The French sociologist Michel Maffesoli referred to these new tribes as “neotribes.” The behavioral patterns within these neo
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