To Accelerate Serendipity, The Whuffie Factor
Tara Hunt; Future of Money and Technology Summit 2010 In 1999, Cluetrain Manifesto flipped everything we knew about online behavior on it’s head. The integration of information being published on the...
View ArticleTrading Money in for Value
Money is a convenient way to store and exchange value. Unless the world enters into a free trade agreement with Martians, Earth is the physical boundary of all existing value. No matter what a monetary...
View ArticleFinancial Currency vs. Social Currency
The difference between the current economic paradigm and the next will balance on the difference between financial currency and social currency. Let me explain: The flawed calculation Obviously, the...
View ArticleLet’s Argue About the Definition of Productivity Instead
Many arguments rage because of poor definitions to terms. If people cannot agree on a definition, they will not agree on much else. A definition should be definitive – here I will tackle 5 of the most...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing The New Exploitation
The cadence of modern globalization has been set by the steady drive to lower labor costs across the world. Not surprisingly, the greatest threat to the global economy is social instability. As usual,...
View ArticleCluster Funk
I recently attended another one of those economic development summits where a bunch of people with long titles gets a chance to speak on a panel touting the mysterious benefits of a mysterious...
View ArticleTangential Innovation Communities
In an earlier article (Cluster Funk) I argued that Industrial clusters can lead to stagnation, vulnerability to external shocks, and the erosion of social capital. Since I’m not one to complain without...
View ArticleWill Social Capitalism Replace Market Capitalism? (Parts 1&2)
This video describes a set of predictions for 2020 based on an entirely new form of capitalism whose velocity and voracity will take the world completely by surprise. Nothing is sacred and nobody is...
View ArticleSocial Capital Trolls
A Troll is a member of a race of fearsome creatures from Norse mythology. Troll mythology is, in fact fairly complex but seems to resolve to common images of Neanderthal type people living under...
View ArticleIndependence Is A State of Mind
Independence is a state of mind. Americans have always chosen independence – and they will continue to do so. It is often convenient to let ourselves trust elected leaders and the esteemed business...
View ArticleThe Next Great Leap for Social Capitalism
The Knowledge inventory will become the most important element of Social Capitalism. Today, knowledge is largely sequestered behind the walls of corporation in the form of titles, skill codes,...
View ArticleThe Knowledge Inventory: You Can’t Make A Bet Without Odds
In order to create anything useful, there must be an inventory of parts, a bill of materials, or an accounting system with assets on one column and liabilities (deficiencies) in the other column. The...
View ArticleBizarro Capitalism
In the 1960’s Superman comics, Bizarro World was a place where everything was the opposite as Normal World. On the planet Htrae (Earth spelled backwards) lives Bizarro Jimmy Olsen, a Bizarro Lois...
View ArticleSocial Capitalism Predictions 2020
The purpose of this video is demonstrate the scope of influence that Value Games may have in communities. Each of the following predictions suggest disruption to a current way of storing and exchanging...
View ArticleSocial Capitalism: The Value Game
The Value Game introduces a new class of business plans that will define Social Capitalism as a distinction from Market Capitalism rather than simply an extension of Market Capitalism (as most...
View ArticleSystem for The Monetization of Social Capitalism
Exoquant.com Currency is a device used for the storage and exchange of Value. Two characteristics of modern money are the abilities to Capitalize and Securitize the currency. In fact, Wall Street...
View ArticleSecuritization of Social Currency
Throughout the articles and videos on this blog, I try to make a direct and rigorous analogy between Market Capitalism and Social Capitalism because there are two characteristics that no Social...
View ArticleGoogle CEO Warns of Information Armageddon
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns of the future consequences of social media and networks, and the vast amount of personal data that users put out there on the...
View ArticleAn IPO For Humanity
The term IPO conjures images of empire-making where a hot young company with a great product offers pieces of its future-self for sale to the public as a means of raising money without incurring debt....
View Article9/11 and the Convergence Economy
Today, I have been reading a lot of posts related to 9/11 and the terrible events of that day. The conversation lives. It is propagated in every direction and expressed in so many different ways...
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