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    The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructured World
    The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructured World
    The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructured World
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    The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructured World

    Written by Marina Gorbis

    Narrated by Michael Puttonen

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    Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get an education, feed ourselves, and generally go about our lives. The economist Ronald Coase, in his famous 1937 paper “The Nature of the Firm,” provided an economic explanation for this: Organizations lowered transaction costs, making the provision of goods and services cheap, efficient, and reliable. Today, this organizational advantage is rapidly disappearing. The Internet is lowering transaction costs-costs of connection, coordination, and trade-and pointing to a future that increasingly favors distributed sources and social solutions to some of our most immediate needs and our most intractable problems.

    As Silicon Valley thought-leader Marina Gorbis, head of the Institute for the Future, portrays, a thriving new relationship-driven or socialstructed economy is emerging in which individuals are harnessing the powers of new technologies to join together and provide an array of products and services. Examples of this changing economy range from BioCurious, a members-run and free-to-use bio lab, to the peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club, to the remarkable Khan Academy, a free online-teaching service. These engaged and innovative pioneers are filling gaps and doing the seemingly impossible by reinventing business, education, medicine, banking, government, and even scientific research. Based on
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPost Hypnotic Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2013
    ISBN9781927401484
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      not as good as I was expecting
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      I like the internet more than most but the argument that it is some great leveler strikes me as naive. Income inequality is at levels commensurate to the gilded age and shows no signs of stopping. Silicon valley utopianism always has so little to say of the class struggle. I wonder why ?