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  • Being Open: Traditionally, GM has been a very closed organization. Even internally, its different brands acted with a silo mentality. In the Alfred Sloan era, GM used espionage tactics to quell union uprisings and in the mid 20th century, GM was blamed for killing American public transportation in the Great American Streetcar Scandal. In the 1990’s GM was accused of killing the electric car so that it could sell its high margin SUVs and trucks.
  • GM has started by being very public and transparent about its production plans for the Chevy Volt. Also, GM is one of the few car companies to have higher executives and “Car Czar” Bob Lutz blog on a regular basis.
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Wired: How Email Brings You Closer to the Guy in the Next Cubicle

  • If distance really didn’t matter, rents in places like London, New York, Bangalore, and Shanghai would be converging with those in Hitchcock County, Nebraska (population 2,926 and falling).
  • Technology makes it more fun and more profitable to live and work close to the people who matter most to your life and work

The Technium: Technology Wants To Be Free


  • Additionally, this same network of communications spreads learning fast and furious. The news of how to make something more efficient travels almost instantly from the inventor to the entire technium. Tools such as online patents and reverse engineering techniques as well as great mobility among workers all contribute to promiscuous exchange of learning. Further, advanced technologies that encourage cooperation and collaboration permit faster invention and distribution of those inventions, which in turn permit the competitive pressure for lower prices to take effect quicker and deeper. Finally, the market for the finished goods is boosted by easily assembled networks which can gain members quickly. The more units produced or consumed, the faster the learning cycle for efficiency and price reduction. These five traits of networked technology – perfect market competition, price transparency, innovation sharing, collaboration, and expanding markets – ceaselessly push technology toward the free.
18 Nov 08

Kevin Kelly -- Chapter 10: Opportunities Before Efficiencies

  • Beneath the frantic
    ups and downs of daily commerce, a persistent, invisible swell pushes
    the entire econosphere forward, slowly thickening the surface of the
    earth with more things, more interactions, and more opportunities. And
    that tide is accelerating, expanding a little faster each year.


    At the genesis of civilization, the earth was mostly
    Darwin’s realm—all biosphere, no economy.

  • Beneath the frantic
    ups and downs of daily commerce, a persistent, invisible swell pushes
    the entire econosphere forward, slowly thickening the surface of the
    earth with more things, more interactions, and more opportunities. And
    that tide is accelerating, expanding a little faster each year.
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