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Thus the redistribution of power from the inside to the outside of organizations and the rise of the multitude are changing the game. Openness in the Entrepreneurial Age is quite different from globalization in the Dark Ages of financialization. The global world of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s was dominated by giant, bureaucratic corporations. As it

of larger society. So that’s a very old battle in human history between the self-serving stories of an elite and the stories that can actually help serve a broader society. Part of what we’ve seen in our economics is that elites previously used to appeal to gods, to how our ancestors did it, to the natural order, etc., to make credible their storie

cooperation at scale. The state, business, and civil society all have roles to play in creating the

THE DURABILITY QUESTION Every entrepreneur should plan to be the last mover in her particular market. That starts with asking yourself: what will the world look like 10 and 20 years from now, and how will my business fit in?

Manuel Castells, starting with The Rise of the Network Society.

When the technologies that are shaping the new millennium are considered, it is far more likely that we will see not one world government, but microgovernment, or even conditions approaching anarchy.

“The Global Economy as an Adaptive Process,” at seven pages and zero equations, is well worth a read. Holland recounts many, now familiar, difficulties in mathematical analysis of economics that assume linearity, exclusively negative feedback loops, equilibria, and so on, before proposing that the economy is best thought of as what he calls an adap

This is a radical shift from the corporation’s point of view. First of all, consumers are simply more powerful thanks to technology. They are not scattered, non-coordinating agents anymore. They’re equipped with increasing computing power and connected with one another, forming the multitude—a networked organization whose exponential power eventual