Sublime

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

We don’t believe in the coming obsolescence of all human workers. In fact, some human skills are more valuable than ever, even in an age of incredibly powerful and capable digital technologies. But other skills have become worthless, and people who hold the wrong ones now find that they have little to offer employers. They’re losing the race agains

The flip side is that the value of exploitation can only go up over time.

These are all highly contestable statements.

At the time, a fierce debate was raging about whether centrally planned economies like that of the Soviet Union—in other words, economies where there was a single core responsible for creating and distributing goods and services—worked better than free market economies where planning and production were done by an undirected, decentralized crowd. M

Paul Romer, an economist at New York University who specializes in the theory of economic growth, says real sustainable economic growth does not stem from new resources but from existing resources that are rearranged to make them more valuable.

From stone tools to smartphones, this virtuous cycle of innovation expands and compounds what it means to be human over time.

Proliferation is catalyzed by two forces: demand and the resulting cost decreases, each of which drives technology to become even better and cheaper.