Date: 2007-11-11 10:34 pm (UTC)
In the marketplace, wealth and power can be accumulated most rapidly when the market is furthest from equilibrium or financial entropy. That is, when the market is most volatile, there is plenty of economic energy and attention to be selectively diverted.
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One of the reasons fads are so profitable for the corporate world is that they produce remarkably intense singularities of wanting throughout a population - curvatures of social and economic space that greatly accelerate the flow of wealth and thus afford significanly increased "handling" ability for those in a position to direct the resulting current. p. 143

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cf. transition in control points: from a cool product to the control of the pace of system evolution.

cf. political "technologies". cool idea - movement.

disruption -> disequilibrium.

technology disequilibrium - cf S-curve.

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