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In our judgment, the opposite is happening today. Information technology is raising earnings opportunities for the skilled and undermining institutions that operate at a large scale, including the nation-state.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
no more need to have them enforce our contracts.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
whether these developments can or should proceed in the face of opposition from legions of losers will be among the more important controversies of the Information Age.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
The institutional shift will weaken the credibility of the technocracy heading into the 2028 election.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
seemed like Amazon was reinventing the wheel with each integration effort, and this duplication of effort was an expensive and time-consuming waste. So, CEO Jeff Bezos assigned Rick Dalzell the task of “hardening the interfaces” between systems—making sure, in other words, that all the main databases and applications had the same set of ways that t
... See moreAndrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
Complexity confuses. Abstraction alienates. Length loses.