Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

What might be novel is the ownership and control over the entire value chain through command of the information vector itself.

Even more specifically, it is an information problem. Information is the glue that holds networks together. But for tens of thousands of years, Sapiens built and maintained large networks by inventing and spreading fictions, fantasies, and mass delusions—about gods, about enchanted broomsticks, about AI, and about a great many other things. While e

Obviously the state could transform itself, from a Fordist cathedral to an organization designed to deliver performance in the Entrepreneurial Age. The problem is that like many big, dominant corporations, it experiences a version of Clayton Christensen’s “innovator’s dilemma”[392]. One reason is the rule of law, which in many cases prevents innova