February 2012
2 posts
Bruce Sterling:
“Idealism” is Platonic of course, but there’s a lesser-known classical notion called “enantiodromia” that Plato, Heraclitus and even Karl Jung used to carry on about. Enantiodromia can’t be measured with an “enantiodrometer,” so it’s not science any more than the Platonic ideal is. But whenever people talk to me about eternal...
Venkatesh Rao:
Without realizing it, the hundreds of entrepreneurs, startup-studios and incubators, 4-hour-work-weekers and lifestyle designers around the world, experimenting with novel business structures and the attention mining technologies of social media, are collectively triggering the age of Coasean growth.
Coasean growth is not measured in terms of national GDP growth. That’s a...
