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“John Gall wrote, “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over beginning with a working simple system.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“We built something, we get feedback, we try to figure out what make sense out of the suggestions, and then we do something about it and then we listen some more.” That is a great description of how Internet software is typically built today, with what is now called a “build-measure-learn” cycle, in which the users of a minimally useful service teach its creators what they want from them.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“• An architecture of participation means that your users help to extend your platform. • Low barriers to experimentation mean that the system is “hacker friendly” for maximum innovation. • Interoperability means that one component or service can be swapped out if a better one comes along. • “Lock-in” comes because others depend on the benefit from your services, not because you’re completely in control.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“history is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“When the best leader leads, the people say “We did it ourselves.” —Lao-tzu”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“Understanding that what used to be hard is now free and easy due to the work of others is essential to the leapfrogging progress of technology.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“Replacing materials with information” is a more powerful formulation than “replacing ownership with access.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“. . . one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“We need to start seeing Moore’s Law apply to healthcare,” I said. “What’s Moore’s Law?” the senator asked. “You have to understand, Senator,” Reid interjected, “that in Washington, you assume that every year things cost more and do less. In Silicon Valley, everyone expects our products to cost less every year but do more.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“Google’s service is not a server,” I wrote, “though it is delivered by a massive collection of Internet servers—nor a browser—though it is experienced by the user within the browser. Nor does its flagship search service even host the content that it enables users to find. Much like a phone call, which happens not just on the phones at either end of the call, but on the network in between, Google happens in the space between browser and search engine and destination content server, as an enabler or middleman between the user and his or her online experience.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“didn’t keep all the files in one place like existing online music sites. Instead they stored them on the hard drives of millions of users across the Internet. Andy Oram, one of the editors at my publishing company, made the point to me that the architectural implications of these programs were more important than their business implications. (This is a history that has repeated itself fifteen years later with bitcoin and the blockchain.)”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“This is my next lesson. If the future is here, but just not evenly distributed yet, find seeds of that future, study them, and ask yourself how things will be different when they are the new normal. What happens if this trend keeps going?”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“How can a business create more value for society than it captures for itself?”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“大多數的決定你應該在掌握70%的資訊時就做出,如果你等到掌握90%的資訊才決定,在大多數情況下,你可能出手太慢了。”
― 未來地圖:對工作、商業、經濟全新樣貌,正確的理解與該有的行動
― 未來地圖:對工作、商業、經濟全新樣貌,正確的理解與該有的行動
“看看你周圍:你雇用多少人在做有成就感的工作?有多少客戶使用你的產品來謀生?你激發了多少競爭對手?你感動了多少人,是不求他們回報的?”
― 未來地圖:對工作、商業、經濟全新樣貌,正確的理解與該有的行動
― 未來地圖:對工作、商業、經濟全新樣貌,正確的理解與該有的行動
“已經不只一位億萬富翁(還有相當多希望追隨他們的新創公司)告訴我,他們是如何帶著一、兩本歐萊禮出版的書開始創業的。”
― 未來地圖:對工作、商業、經濟全新樣貌,正確的理解與該有的行動
― 未來地圖:對工作、商業、經濟全新樣貌,正確的理解與該有的行動
“大數據技術的崛起,充分詮釋了知識從創造、分享到嵌入工具的三部曲。”
― 未來地圖:對工作、商業、經濟全新樣貌,正確的理解與該有的行動
― 未來地圖:對工作、商業、經濟全新樣貌,正確的理解與該有的行動
“O processo de integração de novas tecnologias nos negócios e na sociedade está longe de ter terminado. Novas tecnologias estão a generalizar-se mais rapidamente do que podem ser aprendidas em qualquer escola. Entretanto, as vantagens das novas tecnologias para as empresas dependem muito da sua capacidade para formar a sua força de trabalho e mudar os fluxos de trabalho de acordo com as suas exigências.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“O poder do acesso a pedido à informação é a chave para a próxima geração de aprendizagem. Aqueles que se preocupam com a tecnologia e o futuro do trabalho devem estar atentos a isso, bem como aos pequenos trechos de vídeo, como mecanismo de aprendizagem preferido.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“Temos demasiado pouca diversão na maioria da aprendizagem formal e as pessoas estão ansiosas por isso. Se não conseguimos inspirar curiosidade é provável que estejamos no caminho errado.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“A inteligência artificial não é uma espécie de rutura radical. A inteligência artificial não é uma máquina do futuro, hostil aos valores humanos, que nos levará a todos para o desemprego. A inteligência artificial é o próximo passo na disseminação e utilidade do conhecimento, que é a verdadeira fonte de riqueza das nações. Não devemos receá-la. Devemos fazer com que funcione, de forma intencional e refletida, para que crie mais valor do que perturbações para a sociedade. Já está a ser utilizada para potenciar e não para substituir a inteligência humana.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“Nos próximos anos iremos assistir a uma explosão de empresas emergentes que encontrarão novas formas de converter, cada vez mais, a atenção online em dinheiro tradicional.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“A prosperidade ocorreu quando os frutos da produtividade foram amplamente partilhados; a inimizade, a turbulência política e mesmo a guerra declarada foram o resultado de uma desigualdade crescente. É óbvio que a generosidade é a estratégia robusta.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“As pequenas empresas são a base da economia, proporcionando quase metade do emprego de todo o setor privado. Os decisores políticos têm de compreender o papel das plataformas que trazem as pequenas empresas para o século XXI, avaliar o seu impacto económico e elaborar políticas fiscais para encorajar a criação de um valor económico mais amplo e não apenas o valor que as empresas extraem para si próprias.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“Não sou um economista, político ou financeiro que disponha de respostas rápidas sobre as razões pelas quais as coisas podem ou não podem mudar. Sou um tecnólogo e um empreendedor habituado a reparar nas discrepâncias entre a forma como as coisas são e a forma como poderiam ser, e a fazer perguntas cujas respostas possam apontar o caminho para futuros melhores.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“Sonhar o futuro não está reservado aos tecnólogos. O governo do povo, pelo povo e para o povo exige também uma reinvenção massiva para o século XXI.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“Quem é o mercado? São os corretores algorítmicos que entram e saem das empresas a uma velocidade de milissegundos, transformando aquilo que foi já um veículo para investimento do capital na economia real num casino onde as regras estão sempre a favor da casa.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“Eu sou um capitalista bem-sucedido, mas estou cansado de ouvir que pessoas como eu criam empregos. Há apenas uma coisa que cria empregos, e são os clientes. E temos estado a tramar os trabalhadores há tanto tempo que eles não se podem dar ao luxo de ser nossos clientes. - Nick Hanauer”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“Confundir o que é bom para os mercados financeiros com o que é bom para os empregos, salários e para a vida das pessoas é um erro fatal em muitas escolhas económicas realizadas por líderes empresariais, legisladores e políticos.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“A ideia de que extrair os maiores lucros possíveis e em seguida distribuir o dinheiro pelos gestores da empresa, grandes investidores e outros acionistas é bom para a sociedade tornou-se tão profundamente enraizada que durante demasiado tempo tem sido difícil ver os efeitos destrutivos para a nossa sociedade quando se dá prioridade aos acionistas sobre os trabalhadores, as comunidades e os clientes. Este é um mapa nocivo que levou a nossa economia por maus caminhos.”
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
― WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us