The influential economic theorist looks ahead to a world of virtually free energy and zero marginal cost production, and to a desperate race against climate change.
This document outlines key trends shaping society in the post-corona era, including the rise of technology and social transformations. Major technological explosions like the internet, social web, collaborative economy, and autonomous world are blurring lines between real and fake and transforming production, resources, capital, labor and organizations. Traditional structures are giving way to those driven by technology and data. Centralization of marketplaces through platforms like Airbnb are having significant impacts. The sharing economy is prioritizing access over ownership of spaces, services and products. Coworking has become an enabler of serendipitous connections and opportunities through social and monetary capital. A framework is proposed for cities as multidimensional public spaces that foster diversity,
Ronald van den Hoff is an author, publisher, trendwatcher, entrepreneur, coach, investor, and chairman who discusses the rise of a "chaordic" or technologically and socially transforming society from 1995 to 2025. Key transformations include the internet providing access to information, the social web enabling connectivity, and collaborative economies creating new social and economic value through platforms. Advancements may lead to an autonomous world where artificial and human intelligence are connected through a "global brain" and "metaverse-mesh," and intelligent robots perform jobs cheaper and more reliably than humans.
This document discusses trends toward decentralization, flexible work arrangements, and the growing gig economy. It provides statistics on the rise of freelancing and independent work. Coworking spaces are presented as enablers of connectivity, collaboration, and innovation that allow organizations to access skills and opportunities beyond their traditional boundaries. Data from the Seats2meet coworking platform demonstrates increasing social and economic value generated through serendipitous connections and opportunities among coworking members over time.
The document discusses the future of "Super-Industrialism" with the rise of big data infrastructure, data-driven organizations, and sophisticated online consumers and producers ("e-sumers" and "e-ducers"). It predicts the redefinition of computing, jobs, citizenship, and cities as more aspects of life merge online. The future will see increased globalization and competition over control of digital spaces, with an emphasis on integrity and vision over superficial measures of success.
Transforming businesses as the Internet of Things expands.
As a global electronics company, IBM understands the
issues facing the high-tech industry and the continuous
transformation required to thrive. Find more by watching this interesting presentation.
Thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT), physical assets are turning into participants in real-time global digital markets. The countless types of assets around us will become as easily indexed, searched and traded as any online commodity. While some industries will be tougher to transform than others – those with physical limitations, such as manufacturing, will be harder to digitize – untold economic opportunities exist for growth and advancement. Our research shows this will create a new “Economy of Things” with significant consequences. Here, we explore this transformation, including what could happen to industry profit pools, as well as the likely impacts on existing players in different industries.
Presentation on Drupal in Open Government. Effective open government will result in better collaboration between the public and private sectors creating a new level of value for government services. Several examples of where Drupal is used in government today are included.
The influential economic theorist looks ahead to a world of virtually free energy and zero marginal cost production, and to a desperate race against climate change.
This document outlines key trends shaping society in the post-corona era, including the rise of technology and social transformations. Major technological explosions like the internet, social web, collaborative economy, and autonomous world are blurring lines between real and fake and transforming production, resources, capital, labor and organizations. Traditional structures are giving way to those driven by technology and data. Centralization of marketplaces through platforms like Airbnb are having significant impacts. The sharing economy is prioritizing access over ownership of spaces, services and products. Coworking has become an enabler of serendipitous connections and opportunities through social and monetary capital. A framework is proposed for cities as multidimensional public spaces that foster diversity,
Ronald van den Hoff is an author, publisher, trendwatcher, entrepreneur, coach, investor, and chairman who discusses the rise of a "chaordic" or technologically and socially transforming society from 1995 to 2025. Key transformations include the internet providing access to information, the social web enabling connectivity, and collaborative economies creating new social and economic value through platforms. Advancements may lead to an autonomous world where artificial and human intelligence are connected through a "global brain" and "metaverse-mesh," and intelligent robots perform jobs cheaper and more reliably than humans.
This document discusses trends toward decentralization, flexible work arrangements, and the growing gig economy. It provides statistics on the rise of freelancing and independent work. Coworking spaces are presented as enablers of connectivity, collaboration, and innovation that allow organizations to access skills and opportunities beyond their traditional boundaries. Data from the Seats2meet coworking platform demonstrates increasing social and economic value generated through serendipitous connections and opportunities among coworking members over time.
The document discusses the future of "Super-Industrialism" with the rise of big data infrastructure, data-driven organizations, and sophisticated online consumers and producers ("e-sumers" and "e-ducers"). It predicts the redefinition of computing, jobs, citizenship, and cities as more aspects of life merge online. The future will see increased globalization and competition over control of digital spaces, with an emphasis on integrity and vision over superficial measures of success.
Transforming businesses as the Internet of Things expands.
As a global electronics company, IBM understands the
issues facing the high-tech industry and the continuous
transformation required to thrive. Find more by watching this interesting presentation.
Thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT), physical assets are turning into participants in real-time global digital markets. The countless types of assets around us will become as easily indexed, searched and traded as any online commodity. While some industries will be tougher to transform than others – those with physical limitations, such as manufacturing, will be harder to digitize – untold economic opportunities exist for growth and advancement. Our research shows this will create a new “Economy of Things” with significant consequences. Here, we explore this transformation, including what could happen to industry profit pools, as well as the likely impacts on existing players in different industries.
Presentation on Drupal in Open Government. Effective open government will result in better collaboration between the public and private sectors creating a new level of value for government services. Several examples of where Drupal is used in government today are included.
The importance of Open Data in Higher EducationTom Williams
Open information sharing is important for higher education's future. As the web has evolved from simply displaying documents (Web 1.0) to enabling social interactions and sharing data through APIs (Web 2.0 and 3.0), it is crucial for higher education institutions to publish their data openly through APIs and open licenses. Doing so increases accountability, enables more efficient functioning, and empowers people by giving them access to valuable information. All institutions already have large amounts of data that could be published to these ends.
1) The document discusses the opportunity for technology to improve organizational efficiency and transition economies into a "smart and clean world."
2) It argues that aggregate efficiency has stalled at around 22% for 30 years due to limitations of the Second Industrial Revolution, but that digitizing transport, energy, and communication through technologies like blockchain can help manage resources and increase efficiency.
3) Technologies like precision agriculture, cloud computing, robotics, and autonomous vehicles may allow for "dematerialization" and do more with fewer physical resources through effects like reduced waste and need for transportation/logistics infrastructure.
The dot-com bubble occurred from 1995-2000 when stock markets saw rapid growth in equity value from companies related to the internet and new technology. Many new internet-based companies, called dot-coms, were founded and saw their stock prices increase simply by adding "e-" or ".com" regardless of fundamentals. A combination of increased stock prices, confidence in future profits, speculation, and available venture capital created an environment where investors overlooked traditional metrics. The period started before widespread internet use and recognition of its importance, but increased after politicians discussed the "information superhighway" and major magazines began covering new communications technologies in the early 1990s.
This document summarizes challenges facing newspapers and proposes solutions for publishers to adapt their business models. It notes that newspaper staff and advertising revenue have sharply declined in recent years. It also discusses debates around how news should be delivered and monetized online, including the role of search engines and whether users will pay for online content. The document advocates for new approaches like social curation of news, location-based filtering, and micropayments to support quality journalism into the future.
This document outlines a roadmap to a future "chaordic society" driven by decentralization, collaboration, and networked value creation. Key points:
- Society is shifting from industrial to data-driven as digital and fabrication revolutions transform work and the economy.
- Emerging platforms and technologies like augmented reality, cryptocurrencies, and artificial intelligence will further decentralize society and enable new forms of collaboration.
- A potential future involves an "interdependent economy" of small, interconnected local networks creating sustainable social and economic value through collaboration instead of hierarchies. Data sharing strengthens these decentralized networks.
- "Decentralization enables at a fine grain level groups of people to self-organize in
The document outlines major societal and technological changes that have occurred throughout history and will continue to transform our world in the coming years. It notes that we have transitioned from agricultural to industrial to digital societies, and are now moving toward a data-driven world. Emerging technologies like 3D printing, the Internet of Things, and digital fabrication will blur business models and allow for increased sharing of abundance through platforms that connect people and facilitate opportunities. Major cities and connected individuals will become more important than countries and organizations.
Technology Startups Ecosystem in China - Lessons to other ecosystemsDaniel Cukier
At the beginning of November 2016, I joined a group of 54 entrepreneurs delegation to meet Chinese startups. We had an intense week visiting companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, JD, etc, talking with entrepreneurs, investors and other ecosystem agents. Is there innovation in China? Can we consider that Chinese startups are successful? What does China represents to the futuro of technology development? What the Brazilian and other ecosystems can learn from this example? What went wrong? What went right? This slides bring some insights from this trip. They are an invite for debate about the role of the giant in the technological and economical international scene.
From the Alternative UK: Towards an "Alternative" media systemwww.patkane.global
The document discusses the current media landscape and proposes elements of a new alternative media system. It notes that most mainstream press is establishment-oriented commercially and that new populist players are emerging. The Alternative UK (A/UK) aims to tell a new story and vision for the future through a daily alternative news/views service. This would build around individual, community and planetary flourishing. Elements proposed include digital forums, apps, and strategies to shape both facts and feelings. It suggests bold new media brands and free creativity from the creative sector. Cooperative models and new funding approaches could generate a non-manipulative sector.
This document discusses key driving forces and technologies that will shape the future including:
- A global middle class squeeze and millennials making up 75% of the workforce by 2025 will drive social changes.
- Technologies like intelligent systems, smart grids, renewable energy, and the internet of everything will converge and become more integrated.
- Cost declines in solar power and energy storage will continue, enhancing the transition to renewable energy sources and creating a more distributed energy future.
- Continued examination of business models will be needed to ensure resilience with ongoing energy and technological transitions.
The document discusses several trends affecting the world population over the coming decades:
- By 2050, 69% of the world's population will live in urban areas, and 600 million people will still be off the power grids.
- 75 million new jobs will need to be created in the next 10 years as 69% of 2020 jobs have not been invented yet.
- The number of people over age 60 will double to 1.5 billion by 2050.
- Cybercrime is a growing issue, with 1 million people falling victim every day.
The document discusses the power of mass collaboration and how it is spreading through various examples. It describes how Wikipedia and Linux were created through open collaboration and how a mining company called Goldcorp opened up their research to crowdsourcing to find new gold deposits, which significantly increased their profits. However, it also notes potential dangers if collaboration is used for criminal purposes. Overall, it argues that sharing and peer production can help bring products to market faster while acknowledging that some intellectual property needs to remain protected.
The document discusses several major technological and societal trends that are blurring traditional boundaries and models. These include the rise of crowd-sourcing and sharing platforms that connect people globally, breakthroughs in areas like 3D printing and the Internet of Things, and the growth of knowledge work and virtual collaboration enabled by new tools and marketplaces. Cities and connected individuals are also increasing in influence and importance relative to nations and traditional organizations.
The document discusses the rise of the sharing economy. It argues that economic challenges like unemployment, debt, and scarce resources are driving the growth of collaborative consumption models enabled by new networking technologies. These models allow underutilized assets and skills to be monetized, creating new opportunities for both individuals and businesses. The sharing economy empowers people in developing economies and removes physical boundaries to access global markets. While concerns exist around regulation and data privacy, the networking effects of these new platforms are opening up new peer-to-peer models that are disrupting traditional industries and hierarchies.
The document discusses the dot-com bubble that occurred from 1995-2000. During this period, stock markets saw rapid growth in equity value from the commercial growth of the internet and internet-based companies. Companies were seeing their stock prices increase dramatically if they added "e-" or ".com" to their names. This environment of rapidly increasing stock prices and confidence in future profits led many investors to overlook traditional valuation metrics. The dot-com bubble started before widespread internet usage and did not initially recognize the internet as important, but media coverage of the "information superhighway" in the early 1990s led major companies and investors to put money into internet-focused businesses.
What's Next? Megatrends Shaping Tomorrow's Society and Rebooting DemocracyNino Lo Cascio
Megatrends Shaping Tomorrow's Society & Rebooting Democracy;
- IT Industrialisation
- Information Explosion
- "Everyware" - The Mobile Internet
- Natural UI
- Aging Population
- Digital Natives
- New emerging democracy model
- Scenarios 2020
Jamaica a logistics centred economy thriving in the Fourth Industrial Revolut...Ainsley Brown
How can a small island developing state like Jamaica thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
The answer is simply: having and implementing a vision that will allow it to secure its future in this age of disruption — the Global Logistics Hub Initiative. Jamaica’s Global Logistics Hub Initiative is Jamaica’s response for building a resilient and sustainable nation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), robots, automation, and the Internet of Things (IoT) — the Fourth industrial Revolution — are all tech terms that have moved into the mainstream of our everyday conversations. Unfortunately the talk is usually one of doom and gloom, punctuated by predictions such as: Robots could displace 800 million jobs. With such grim predictions, who would not pay attention? So what can a small island developing state like Jamaica do to get ready for this future?
It’s important to understand that, as William Gibson stated: “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” The Fourth industrial Revolution is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed. And this represents an opportunity for Jamaica.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution can be boiled down to three things:
1. Connectivity
2. Flows
3. Management of connectivity and flows.
In a word: logistics.
Competitiveness, in our globalized world is increasingly based on one’s ability to understand, connect and manoeuvre within and between the various networks that make the world work. The Logistics Performance Index (LPI) 2014 put it succinctly: “Improving logistics performance is at the core of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.”
The document discusses the new industrial revolution which began around 2005 and is expected to last 50 years. It will be characterized by 7 themes: customized manufacturing, environmental responsiveness, niche approaches, hybridized manufacturing models, China's continued rise as a manufacturing power, a push for new technologies, and a transition to more skilled labor and design-focused work. The new revolution will create opportunities for talented people and countries that develop strong design and engineering capabilities can position themselves higher in global manufacturing value chains.
Global socio-economic, demographic and technological forces that HP calls Megatrends will have a sustained and transformative impact on businesses, societies, economies, cultures and our personal lives in unimaginable ways in the years to come.
Interested in learning more about Megatrends? Visit hpmegatrends.com.
**Please note this presentation was developed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, so although we don’t address it directly, we do speak to the innovations and solutions that exist beyond it. We hope this knowledge opens a window of hope and possibility to what awaits us on the road ahead.
Kenney & Zysman - The Rise of the Platform Economy (Spring 2016 IST)xMartin Kenney
The document discusses the rise of digital platforms and the platform economy. Key points:
- Digital platforms like Amazon, Facebook, and Uber are creating new online structures that are changing how people work, socialize, and create economic value.
- These platforms are reconfiguring the global economy and how value is created and captured. Their impact on work, markets, and competition could be transformative.
- There is debate around what to call this new digital economy - labels influence how it is studied, used, and regulated. The authors prefer "platform economy" as a neutral term.
- Whether this platform economy results in utopia or dystopia is still unclear and will depend on social, political, and business choices
Economic Impact of Digital Revolution_JM_073015JIM MUKERJEE
Paper for Oxford University (Merton College) course on "Did the Victors lose the Peace?", Summer 2015.
(International Relations & Economics, 1945-2015)
The importance of Open Data in Higher EducationTom Williams
Open information sharing is important for higher education's future. As the web has evolved from simply displaying documents (Web 1.0) to enabling social interactions and sharing data through APIs (Web 2.0 and 3.0), it is crucial for higher education institutions to publish their data openly through APIs and open licenses. Doing so increases accountability, enables more efficient functioning, and empowers people by giving them access to valuable information. All institutions already have large amounts of data that could be published to these ends.
1) The document discusses the opportunity for technology to improve organizational efficiency and transition economies into a "smart and clean world."
2) It argues that aggregate efficiency has stalled at around 22% for 30 years due to limitations of the Second Industrial Revolution, but that digitizing transport, energy, and communication through technologies like blockchain can help manage resources and increase efficiency.
3) Technologies like precision agriculture, cloud computing, robotics, and autonomous vehicles may allow for "dematerialization" and do more with fewer physical resources through effects like reduced waste and need for transportation/logistics infrastructure.
The dot-com bubble occurred from 1995-2000 when stock markets saw rapid growth in equity value from companies related to the internet and new technology. Many new internet-based companies, called dot-coms, were founded and saw their stock prices increase simply by adding "e-" or ".com" regardless of fundamentals. A combination of increased stock prices, confidence in future profits, speculation, and available venture capital created an environment where investors overlooked traditional metrics. The period started before widespread internet use and recognition of its importance, but increased after politicians discussed the "information superhighway" and major magazines began covering new communications technologies in the early 1990s.
This document summarizes challenges facing newspapers and proposes solutions for publishers to adapt their business models. It notes that newspaper staff and advertising revenue have sharply declined in recent years. It also discusses debates around how news should be delivered and monetized online, including the role of search engines and whether users will pay for online content. The document advocates for new approaches like social curation of news, location-based filtering, and micropayments to support quality journalism into the future.
This document outlines a roadmap to a future "chaordic society" driven by decentralization, collaboration, and networked value creation. Key points:
- Society is shifting from industrial to data-driven as digital and fabrication revolutions transform work and the economy.
- Emerging platforms and technologies like augmented reality, cryptocurrencies, and artificial intelligence will further decentralize society and enable new forms of collaboration.
- A potential future involves an "interdependent economy" of small, interconnected local networks creating sustainable social and economic value through collaboration instead of hierarchies. Data sharing strengthens these decentralized networks.
- "Decentralization enables at a fine grain level groups of people to self-organize in
The document outlines major societal and technological changes that have occurred throughout history and will continue to transform our world in the coming years. It notes that we have transitioned from agricultural to industrial to digital societies, and are now moving toward a data-driven world. Emerging technologies like 3D printing, the Internet of Things, and digital fabrication will blur business models and allow for increased sharing of abundance through platforms that connect people and facilitate opportunities. Major cities and connected individuals will become more important than countries and organizations.
Technology Startups Ecosystem in China - Lessons to other ecosystemsDaniel Cukier
At the beginning of November 2016, I joined a group of 54 entrepreneurs delegation to meet Chinese startups. We had an intense week visiting companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, JD, etc, talking with entrepreneurs, investors and other ecosystem agents. Is there innovation in China? Can we consider that Chinese startups are successful? What does China represents to the futuro of technology development? What the Brazilian and other ecosystems can learn from this example? What went wrong? What went right? This slides bring some insights from this trip. They are an invite for debate about the role of the giant in the technological and economical international scene.
From the Alternative UK: Towards an "Alternative" media systemwww.patkane.global
The document discusses the current media landscape and proposes elements of a new alternative media system. It notes that most mainstream press is establishment-oriented commercially and that new populist players are emerging. The Alternative UK (A/UK) aims to tell a new story and vision for the future through a daily alternative news/views service. This would build around individual, community and planetary flourishing. Elements proposed include digital forums, apps, and strategies to shape both facts and feelings. It suggests bold new media brands and free creativity from the creative sector. Cooperative models and new funding approaches could generate a non-manipulative sector.
This document discusses key driving forces and technologies that will shape the future including:
- A global middle class squeeze and millennials making up 75% of the workforce by 2025 will drive social changes.
- Technologies like intelligent systems, smart grids, renewable energy, and the internet of everything will converge and become more integrated.
- Cost declines in solar power and energy storage will continue, enhancing the transition to renewable energy sources and creating a more distributed energy future.
- Continued examination of business models will be needed to ensure resilience with ongoing energy and technological transitions.
The document discusses several trends affecting the world population over the coming decades:
- By 2050, 69% of the world's population will live in urban areas, and 600 million people will still be off the power grids.
- 75 million new jobs will need to be created in the next 10 years as 69% of 2020 jobs have not been invented yet.
- The number of people over age 60 will double to 1.5 billion by 2050.
- Cybercrime is a growing issue, with 1 million people falling victim every day.
The document discusses the power of mass collaboration and how it is spreading through various examples. It describes how Wikipedia and Linux were created through open collaboration and how a mining company called Goldcorp opened up their research to crowdsourcing to find new gold deposits, which significantly increased their profits. However, it also notes potential dangers if collaboration is used for criminal purposes. Overall, it argues that sharing and peer production can help bring products to market faster while acknowledging that some intellectual property needs to remain protected.
The document discusses several major technological and societal trends that are blurring traditional boundaries and models. These include the rise of crowd-sourcing and sharing platforms that connect people globally, breakthroughs in areas like 3D printing and the Internet of Things, and the growth of knowledge work and virtual collaboration enabled by new tools and marketplaces. Cities and connected individuals are also increasing in influence and importance relative to nations and traditional organizations.
The document discusses the rise of the sharing economy. It argues that economic challenges like unemployment, debt, and scarce resources are driving the growth of collaborative consumption models enabled by new networking technologies. These models allow underutilized assets and skills to be monetized, creating new opportunities for both individuals and businesses. The sharing economy empowers people in developing economies and removes physical boundaries to access global markets. While concerns exist around regulation and data privacy, the networking effects of these new platforms are opening up new peer-to-peer models that are disrupting traditional industries and hierarchies.
The document discusses the dot-com bubble that occurred from 1995-2000. During this period, stock markets saw rapid growth in equity value from the commercial growth of the internet and internet-based companies. Companies were seeing their stock prices increase dramatically if they added "e-" or ".com" to their names. This environment of rapidly increasing stock prices and confidence in future profits led many investors to overlook traditional valuation metrics. The dot-com bubble started before widespread internet usage and did not initially recognize the internet as important, but media coverage of the "information superhighway" in the early 1990s led major companies and investors to put money into internet-focused businesses.
What's Next? Megatrends Shaping Tomorrow's Society and Rebooting DemocracyNino Lo Cascio
Megatrends Shaping Tomorrow's Society & Rebooting Democracy;
- IT Industrialisation
- Information Explosion
- "Everyware" - The Mobile Internet
- Natural UI
- Aging Population
- Digital Natives
- New emerging democracy model
- Scenarios 2020
Jamaica a logistics centred economy thriving in the Fourth Industrial Revolut...Ainsley Brown
How can a small island developing state like Jamaica thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
The answer is simply: having and implementing a vision that will allow it to secure its future in this age of disruption — the Global Logistics Hub Initiative. Jamaica’s Global Logistics Hub Initiative is Jamaica’s response for building a resilient and sustainable nation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), robots, automation, and the Internet of Things (IoT) — the Fourth industrial Revolution — are all tech terms that have moved into the mainstream of our everyday conversations. Unfortunately the talk is usually one of doom and gloom, punctuated by predictions such as: Robots could displace 800 million jobs. With such grim predictions, who would not pay attention? So what can a small island developing state like Jamaica do to get ready for this future?
It’s important to understand that, as William Gibson stated: “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” The Fourth industrial Revolution is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed. And this represents an opportunity for Jamaica.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution can be boiled down to three things:
1. Connectivity
2. Flows
3. Management of connectivity and flows.
In a word: logistics.
Competitiveness, in our globalized world is increasingly based on one’s ability to understand, connect and manoeuvre within and between the various networks that make the world work. The Logistics Performance Index (LPI) 2014 put it succinctly: “Improving logistics performance is at the core of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.”
The document discusses the new industrial revolution which began around 2005 and is expected to last 50 years. It will be characterized by 7 themes: customized manufacturing, environmental responsiveness, niche approaches, hybridized manufacturing models, China's continued rise as a manufacturing power, a push for new technologies, and a transition to more skilled labor and design-focused work. The new revolution will create opportunities for talented people and countries that develop strong design and engineering capabilities can position themselves higher in global manufacturing value chains.
Global socio-economic, demographic and technological forces that HP calls Megatrends will have a sustained and transformative impact on businesses, societies, economies, cultures and our personal lives in unimaginable ways in the years to come.
Interested in learning more about Megatrends? Visit hpmegatrends.com.
**Please note this presentation was developed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, so although we don’t address it directly, we do speak to the innovations and solutions that exist beyond it. We hope this knowledge opens a window of hope and possibility to what awaits us on the road ahead.
Kenney & Zysman - The Rise of the Platform Economy (Spring 2016 IST)xMartin Kenney
The document discusses the rise of digital platforms and the platform economy. Key points:
- Digital platforms like Amazon, Facebook, and Uber are creating new online structures that are changing how people work, socialize, and create economic value.
- These platforms are reconfiguring the global economy and how value is created and captured. Their impact on work, markets, and competition could be transformative.
- There is debate around what to call this new digital economy - labels influence how it is studied, used, and regulated. The authors prefer "platform economy" as a neutral term.
- Whether this platform economy results in utopia or dystopia is still unclear and will depend on social, political, and business choices
Economic Impact of Digital Revolution_JM_073015JIM MUKERJEE
Paper for Oxford University (Merton College) course on "Did the Victors lose the Peace?", Summer 2015.
(International Relations & Economics, 1945-2015)
Metanomics is a weekly talk show that explores the serious uses of virtual worlds. Entering its third year of broadcasting, the season will open with a special mixed reality event that combines a live feed from the Engage Expo in San Jose California with guests attending from the virtual world Second Life.
For more information visit http://metanomics.net
Metanomics Launches Third Season Exploring Serious Uses of Virtual WorldsDoug Thompson
Metanomics is a weekly talk show that explores the serious uses of virtual worlds. Entering its third year of broadcasting, the season will open with a special mixed reality event that combines a live feed from the Engage Expo in San Jose California with guests attending from the virtual world Second Life.
For more information visit http://metanomics.net
The document discusses several topics related to internet governance and culture, including issues with ICANN and U.S. control over domain name systems, debates around defining what constitutes the internet, and examples of online civil disobedience such as the "etoy vs eToys" case. It also addresses questions around how Habermas' theory of communicative action could work across language groups and debates around the impacts of globalization on culture.
This document summarizes a research paper on China's experiences with technology, trade, and inclusive development in the context of globalization. The research examined China's patterns of trade, technology, and investment to analyze their impact on development. It found that while foreign direct investment, trade, and economic growth were in long-run equilibrium, they also created a wide income inequality gap. The researchers conclude it is important for policymakers to address obstacles and improve absorptive capacity to maximize inclusive development and equality.
Evaluation of technology, trade, and inclusive development: Chinese experiencesAkhilesh Chandra Prabhakar
The present study begins by surveying, broadly supports the assertion that technology, trade, sustainability and
development-led globalization is the path in the Chinese context not adequately paid to attention except with very few
original or significant contributions. This research examines the existing pattern in the areas of trade, technology,
investment with a view to locate in the development context in the era of globalization. This study also investigates
theories of trade, technology movement under capitalist paradigm along with the empirical one. The survey broadly
supports the frequent, through usually undocumented, assertion that China’s socialist market paradigm was not
different from the capitalist mode of production as tended to neglect and to which they had made few if any original or
significant contributions. Alongside, this study used secondary data and analyzed, where the results confirmed that
foreign direct investment (FDI), trade and economic growth indicated the presence of long-run sustainable equilibrium
relationship between them but created income inequality gap widely among people. It is, thus, important for
policymakers to remove obstacles and improve the respective absorptive capacity in order to reap maximized positive
inclusive development with equality basis.
1) We have reached an inflection point where technology can help solve major world problems through smarter systems.
2) Advances in areas like RFID, internet connectivity, and computing power mean instrumentation and data are now ubiquitous.
3) These technological advances provide opportunities to create intelligent infrastructure that improves lives and drives economic growth while respecting privacy.
1) We have reached an inflection point where technology can help solve major world problems through smarter systems.
2) Advances in areas like RFID, internet connectivity, and computing power mean instrumentation and data are now ubiquitous.
3) These technological advances provide opportunities to create intelligent infrastructure that improves lives and drives economic growth while respecting privacy.
In just under 50 years, computers have gone from frightening behemoths to countercultural totems to everyday consumer fashion accessories. The history of new media helps us understand why it is so ideologically powerful today.
These lecture slides are from my Masters unit, Future Media Platforms, taught at Bournemouth University.
Global Values Chains (GCVs) led by transnational corporations (TNCs) have
reshaped the world division of labor over the past two decades. GVCs are pervasive in low
technology manufacturing such as textile and apparel as well as in more advanced industries like
automobiles, electronics, and machines. This hierarchical division of labor generates wild
competition at the lower value-added stages of production, where low wages and low profit
margins prevail for workers and contract manufacturers in developing countries. At the top of the
hierarchy another kind of competition prevails, centered on the ability to monitor and control
intellectual property rights related to innovation, finance, and marketing. In Latin America and
elsewhere, the legislative and institutional changes associated with globalized trade and finance
have enhanced corporate mobility, making it easier for firms to reduce wage costs and shift
accounting profits to low-tax jurisdictions. This increased mobility has increased rents for large
firms and helped redistribute income along the value chain from productive workers to
shareholders and salaried executives.
This document discusses the impact of digitalization on various industries and the job market. It begins by providing examples of large digital companies that own no physical assets. It then discusses the three industrial revolutions with the third being the digital revolution beginning in 1969. Digitalization is defined as the integration of digital technologies into everyday life through digitizing everything possible. The document explores how digitalization has impacted jobs by replacing some human roles while creating new high-skilled jobs like cybersecurity roles. Benefits of digitalization include access to new markets, reduced costs, and improved global connectivity. The value of digital companies is seen to correlate to their number of users. The conclusion questions the impact on banking and telecom industries and compares physical to digital
The NCD is the largest association in The Netherlands, exclusive for top level management, commissioners and boardmembers. NCD organized a minicongres on Trends in Technlogy - in celebration of heir 60-year anniversary. I spoke on the subject of social business and trends.
Moren info on: http://www.ncd.nl/agenda/evenement/38/
What Do We Mine Next - Data Science and Mining on the BlockchainLoyalCoin
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1. Is capitalism driving itself out of business?
Jeremy
Rifkin
FORTUNE -- Capitalism seems to be getting it from all sides these days.
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French economist Thomas Piketty made the rounds in New York and Washington, D.C. last week to
promote his new, widely praised tome, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, an exhaustive analysis
that argues that inequality and the concentration of wealth among the few are the norm, rather than
the exception, within capitalist societies.
In a less sobering -- at times, overoptimistic -- side of a similar coin, political consultant and social
theorist Jeremy Rifkin's recently published The Zero Marginal Cost Society highlights a capitalism
that seems to be running itself out of business.
Rifkin argues that the private market's drive for efficiency and productivity has brought us ever
closer to a world in which the marginal cost to produce just about everything will inch closer and
closer to zero.
Picture factories run entirely by robots, powered by renewable energy sources like wind and the
sun, creating products delivered by driverless vehicles, also run on renewable energy. Maybe these
products won't even need to make any kind of journey at all. Perhaps they can simply be produced at
your home or a few blocks away with the help of a 3-D printer.
Speaking of your home, in Rifkin's new world, your next one may very well be built by locally
generated, 3-D-printed materials, in record time, removing the considerable expense of transporting
construction goods. Rifkin cites an MIT lab that is working to develop a house frame in a single day
"with virtually no human labor." An equivalent frame, Rifkin says, "would take an entire construction
2. crew a month to put up."
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That home will be powered by -- you guessed it -- increasingly cheap renewable energy, and it will be
stocked with more sensors than you can imagine, all feeding data into a smart grid, so your house
knows how much energy you need and when, and what needs to be repaired.
This is a technological utopia brought to you by the convergence of what Rifkin calls the
Communications Internet (how information is shared), the Energy Internet (how energy needs are
shared and energy itself is distributed), and the Logistics Internet (how products are built and
delivered), all equaling the so-called Internet of Things.
Granted, the initial cost of building such a system will be substantial. But once it's up and running,
Rifkin argues, the benefits will fundamentally reshape our economic order. "The Internet of Things is
already boosting productivity to the point where the marginal cost of producing many goods and
services is nearly zero, making them practically free," Rifkin writes. "The result is corporate profits
are beginning to dry up, property rights are weakening, and an economy based on scarcity is slowly
giving way to an economy of abundance."
Actually, corporate profits in the U.S. are increasing, both in absolute terms and as a portion of
national income. Sure, some industries are struggling against the waves of technological disruption
(e.g. almost the entire media sector). And then there are energy giants like Exxon and Chevron,
which are facing daunting, expensive headwinds in the search for and cultivation of additional
sources of fossil fuel. But businesses overall are making money, and quite a bit of it.
Where does capitalism fit into Rifkin's world? "In the coming era," he says, "both capitalism and
socialism will lose their once-dominant hold over society, as a new generation increasingly identifies
with Collaboratism."
To explain how we reached this novel economic moment, The Zero Marginal Cost Society takes
readers on a grand historical tour, from feudal Europe, to Adam Smith and Karl Marx, to the rise of
steam, steel, and railroads, and the oil age. Rifkin argues that creating the industrial order of the
past few centuries was so expensive that it required massive, publicly held companies like General
Electric, Ford, and AT&T. Electrifying society, connecting them by phone and rail, and putting the
masses behind the wheel of a car were wildly ambitious projects. Centralized corporations were up
to this task. Today, Rifkin argues, those companies are becoming less relevant.
To Rifkin, we are entering the age of the social commons, where ownership of goods is less essential
to consumers than merely having access to them, pointing to car sharing services like Zipcar,
apartment sharing sites like Airbnb and Courchsurfing.com, and children's toy exchanges like Baby
Plays and Spark Box Toys as pioneers. Expand this kind of behavior to other parts of the economy --
peer-to-peer renewable energy sharing and crowdfunded personal and business loans, for example --
and all sorts of companies may soon end up selling far fewer goods and services to even fewer
people. You would need to put aside measurements like GDP and profits to gauge the success of
such an economy.
There are, of course, hitches to this master plan. Rifkin himself admits several of them. To start, how
can you deliver all the wonders of an "Internet of Things society" when, for example, a little less than
30% of the U.S. population has a fixed broadband Internet subscription? Rifkin praises incipient
efforts to build a nationwide, free Wi-Fi network in the U.S., but such proposals are in their infancy
3. and will likely face opposition from broadband behemoths like Time Warner Cable and Comcast, two
companies that will gain even more control of the market if their proposed merger goes forward.
And even if you somehow build a powerful, expansive Internet that can bring a nation's energy and
economic infrastructure into a new, nearly costless era, you will need to protect it from all kinds of
harm. To his credit, Rifkin devotes significant attention to the potential consequences of
cyberterrorism, especially if the U.S. continues to develop a centralized energy grid (the kind that
could be taken out by a massive cyberattack) rather than building several individual microgrids,
which is what the European Union plans to do.
Then there's the granddaddy of all threats to just about any future economic arrangement: the
untold effects and consequences of climate change. Unpredictable weather and limited food
supplies, clean water, and raw materials all pose major complications, whether or not you take
advantage of technology that can reduce the cost of production.
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Rifkin, who initially made his name as an environmental activist in the 1970s and '80s, is all too
aware of these potential setbacks, and argues that the kind of collaborative, sharing economy he
sees developing could be just what we need at this point, pointing to the power of cooperative and
nonprofit organizational models as a way forward. "We will need to leave behind the parochialisms
of the past and begin to think and act as a single extended family living in a common biosphere," he
writes.
The Zero Marginal Cost Society is admirable in its scope. Rifkin offers a wide-ranging overview of
the kind of tech advances that will redefine how many people live in the coming decades (the wildest
of all: 3-D bioprinters that can produce human tissue and perhaps one day generate entire human
organs). While his techno-utopian vision may seem unrealistic at times, Rifkin makes sure to ground
much of his predictions in data, documented scientific advances, and a fair amount of caveats.
Much of what Rifkin writes about has been covered by the business and tech press in recent years.
But what makes The Zero Marginal Cost Society worth reading is its audacity, its willingness to
weave a vast string of developments into a heartening narrative of what our economic future may
hold for the generations to come. You can call it naive, but it's much more than that. It's hopeful.
And, perhaps in a moment of hope-induced blindness, Rifkin fails to mention the ultimate cost for us
mortals, the one that really isn't going anywhere anytime soon: time.
http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2014/04/23/capitalism-economy-jeremy-rifkin/