Networkism

Networked Capital

  • Two link taxes 1, 2 (h/t Ben Evans). Link taxes will become more prevalent. Just like taxing data as oil, taxing links will happen. Will happen even more so as we get blockchain-based Internet of Money, so can programmatically represent edges (links) and nodes (pools).
On #1, in Australia, from Ben Evans: Making news media dependent on political patronage, as well as the question of why it should be internet companies in particular that pay (as opposed to general taxation, if you think this is a general public good).
On #2, in France: Law: if you use snippets from other sites when you link to them then you have to pay, so Google removed the snippets from Google News. Now the competition authority says that since Google has market dominance this is anti-competitive, and wants to force Google to put the snippets back and to pay for them. Again - if you want Google (or Facebook) to subsidise newspapers, better to be honest and make an actual tax, and accept all of the questions you need to resolve about how it works, rather than inventing fake revenue lines.

Networked Info

  • On Jacina Ardern's (good) leadership. She hosts authentic sessions on Facebook Live. Remember, our info mediums determine the kind of charisma that the political system optimizes for. (e.g. Eisenhower optimized for radio.) A Trump-like figure was inevitable given Twitter (he tells it like it is). An AOC-like figure was inevitable given Instagram. Jacina follows that trend—authenticity. From the article:
People feel that Ardern “doesn’t preach at them; she’s standing with them,”
She appeared in a well-worn sweatshirt at her home (she had just put her toddler daughter to bed, she explained) to offer guidance “as we all prepare to hunker down.”
While Ardern conducts more formal and conventional daily briefings with other top officials and journalists, she puts her personal touch on these as well. “Trump does his briefings, but that’s a different kind of show,”

Networked Orgs

Old Centralized Institutions

COHERENT PLURALISM

BENTOISM and POST-CAPITALISM

Future Us (Climate Change, etc.)

Now Us (Stakeholder Capitalism, Coops, etc.)

Other

GENEROSITY and ABUNDANCE

AMBITIOUS FRONTIER PEOPLE

BLOCKCHAIN

COVID

Food

Actionable

Data

Contact Tracing

Other COVID

GameB

EVENTS

FUN

The Onion

Other