Amazon’s relentless expansion is upending the rules of business. Will the company take over the world? Or is Jeff Bezos over-extending? Bezonomics Brian Dumaine Simon & Schuster, 2020 The Soviet experiment of a centrally planned economy ended in dismal failure…. Read More ›
Innovation
How Fast is the Future?
Peter Diamandis & Steven Kotler cherry-pick evidence to paint a Panglossian picture of accelerating innovation, but fail to conceal the gloomy shadows of Secular Stagnation. I have been reading Peter Diamandis & Steven Kotler’s new book, “The Future is Faster… Read More ›
Random Reflections on the World Post-Covid-19
The physical world has reasserted itself. With the advent of the coronavirus many of the central assumptions underpinning modern civilisation are being questioned. There are those — not least the President of the United States — who believe that society… Read More ›
Økonomiske muligheter for våre barnebarn – 2119
Vi lider nå under et angrep av fanatisk teknologi-optimisme. Det er vanlig å høre foredragsholdere forkynne at vi står på randen til en ny epoke med eksponentiell økonomisk vekst i det 21. århundre; at vi er i ferd med å… Read More ›
Will there be life after Google?
The Google system of the world is an evil empire that stifles entrepreneurial activity and is doomed to fail, before a decentralised Internet will rise from the ashes, argues George Gilder in his latest book. On the face of it… Read More ›
Reid Hoffman’s not fully convincing book on “Blitzscaling”
Businesses can achieve global scale faster than ever in the Networked Age, argues LinkedIn-founder Reid Hoffman in his new book, but must grow fast or die slow in a brutal market where the winner takes all. Blitzscaling — The lightning-fast path to… Read More ›