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Everything is a Remix Part 3 (via Watch | Everything Is a Remix)
Finally some optimism. Current crisis is just the beginning of a Global Sustainable “Golden Age” (via A VC: Required Reading For The Carlota Perez Interview)
Job losses constant, job gains plunge via Innovation - America Has A Structural Problem
Innovator’s requirements – what does it take to find the product cycle?
So where did Jobs get this “founders courage” and what is it? In addition to general brilliance, we see three key ingredients to being a great innovator:
The day after Amazon released its self-publishing platform, I found an interesting article on University 2.0, based on open source course materials and textbooks: Connexions: An Open Source Initiative to Kill Textbooks | College Mogul.
From 1088 when the first university was founded (in my home town Bologna, Italy …) to about 50 years ago, only noble or rich people could go to university. Probably access to learning material from top universities (Like MIT’s OpenCourseWare and Stanford University’s Engineering Everywhere) will soon be free to anyone. This is a much better usage for online education than the previously developed for-profit college programs, like those found at Online University and University of Phoenix. Free, university level academic resources and the accessibility of the Internet are a match made in heaven for public education.
More access to education for an order of magnitude more people, will translate into faster innovation cycles and greater progress, especially in areas of the world that need it the most.
Here’s a great article by Richard Florida on The Altantic on how the recession will reshape the US.
He also links to a previous paper on how our interconnected world has actually increased concentration of economic output, talent and innovation: The World Is Spiky (pdf).
My take is that stronger connections and communication networks increase the impact of power laws and positive feedback loops, thus increasing concentration.
