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New Rules for the New Economy
Table of Contents
This New Economy
Chapter 1: Embrace the Swarm
Chapter 2: Increasing Returns
Chapter 3: Plentitude, Not Scarcity
Chapter 4: Follow the Free
Chapter 5: Feed the Web First
Chapter 6: Let Go at the Top
Chapter 7: From Places to Spaces
Chapter 8: No Harmony, All flux
Chapter 9: Relationship Tech
Chapter 10: Opportunities Before Efficiencies
A Thousand Points of Wealth
New Rules for the New Economy
Annotated Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Notes
New Rules for the New Economy
No one can escape the transforming fire of machines. Technology, which
once progressed at the periphery of culture, now engulfs our minds as well
as our lives. Is it any wonder that technology triggers such intense
fascination, fear, and rage?
One by one, each of the things that we care about in life is touched by
science and then altered. Human expression, thought, communication, and
even human life have been infiltrated by high technology. As each realm is
overtaken plex techniques, the usual order is inverted, and new rules
established. The mighty tumble, the once confident are left desperate for
guidance, and the nimble are given a chance to prevail.
But while the fast-forward technological revolution gets all the headlines
these days, something much larger is slowly turning beneath it. Steadily
driving the gyrating cycles of cool technogadgets and gotta-haves is an
emerging new economic order. The geography of wealth is being reshaped
by our tools. We now live in a new economy created by puters
and munications.
This new economy represents a tectonic upheaval in monwealth, a
far more turbulent reordering than mere digital hardware has produced. The
new economic