[insert rant] We have a perfect flow of information in a perfect market to make just the precise transactions whenever, …
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After Capitalism Concepts
The After Capitalism research started by collecting interesting “new or next economy” concepts. They’ve been analyzed, …
The Gig Dichotomy: Gigging because we want to or have to?
I was working my way through the Horizon 2 transition concepts for After Capitalism when a wonderful listserv …
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The boiling frog future….to 2052?
I finally got around to 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years by Jorgen Randers. Randers has been part of the …
Why create visions or images?
We had a nice discussion on the APF list last week that started out on the gig economy and ended up exploring ideas for …
Prosperity without Growth
This week we follow up on Degrowth with Prosperity without Growth from Professor Tim Jackson. It’s a different take in …
Digging Deeper into Inequality: the 9.9%
Much has been written about inequality, such as Piketty’s wonderful treatise Capital. We hear about the 1%, the 10%, the …
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Evolutionary Reconstruction as Path to Vision
How do we get to our horizon three visions? Gar Alperovitz suggests that “Reform” concepts suggest changes or …
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A healthy fear of superintelligence
Homo Deus explored the possibility of a new human species emerging. If that wasn’t enough to persuade you that we need …
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After Capitalism video
For those who prefer video, or listening, I’m posting a video summary of my After Capitalism ideas. It was recorded as …
Circular economy: From Consumers to Users
Sorting through and synthesizing the now 19 concepts fitting with what we’re calling the “sustainable commons” vision of …
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Next up: A new species!
Homo Deus makes the provocative argument that technological progress has Homo Sapiens on the path to becoming a new …
Has Trump Shifted the Baseline?
This question emerged in a working session on the future of US and Mexico relations. In good Framework Foresight …
After Capitalism Visions Taking Shape
Small steps forward. It’s helpful in research to step back everyone once in and while and assess or re-assess where you …
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Abundance: Tech to the Rescue
The title says it all: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. If you’re a true believer in technology …
Reformation or Transformation
A key question that has consistently informed the research and books that I’ve been going through in this “After …
Shrinking the [formal] Economy
We have made money more important than it should be. The economy is bigger than it should be. Charles Eisenstein in …
The Neoliberal Capitalist Story
“Social responsibility”….[is a] fundamentally subversive doctrine” in a free society….“there is one and only one social …
Signal: Men without Work
Nicholas Eberstadt of American Enterprise Institute provides helpful insight into an issue that “after capitalism” is …
Reframing After Capitalism
I introduced a new framing of the “After Capitalism” project a few weeks ago in a post on “transition.” Let’s look more …
Visions looks forward, not backward
This Sunday’s NY Times, alongside a piece chortling about the problems that Roy Moore is causing Republicans, featured …
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P2P Platforms in Transition to After Capitalism
Last week we talked about the sharing economy as a transition stage to “after capitalism.” Intermediaries are an …
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The Sharing Economy Transition
In my emerging scheme for organizing the concepts for what’s next and after capitalism, I am placing the sharing economy …
From Apartness to Integrated
I have been working through ideas about “what’s after capitalism,” and think about what’s wrong and what could be right, …
After Capitalism: The Symbiotic Economy
APF colleague Matthew Henry pointed me in the direction of Simbi, which is essentially a bartering site in which “you …
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I Am Not a Consumer: Values and After Capitalism
Shifting values are a key part of the “after capitalism” story. It’s not just about economics, it’s really about our way …
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Balanced View of Emerging AI & Automation
One the one hand, “we are at an inflection point—the early stages of a shift as profound as that brought on by the …
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Commons or Commodities?
We might think about two polar opposite and perhaps extreme visions of the “after capitalism” future: commons, in which …
Wiring or Choice?
I’ve got a few books to review for the blog for “After Capitalism” that come at what’s next from different perspectives. …
Jobs or Tasks?
The Shift Commission released a nice report on the future of work looking ahead 10-20 years. Four almost-inevitable …