Rob May looks somewhat far into the future (I think?) and comes up with an interesting scenario to consider. “Once this happens, you can see an economy growing among agents. Agents that collect unique interactions and data sets will sell […]
“What makes the 1950 Census so significant is that it’s the first one that details an America on the heels of World War II, at the start of the baby boom and in full postwar economic swing a decade after […]
A short article with a high concentration of new-to-me knowledge. “Nick Rowe points out that if a central bank wants to control the economy’s price level, it needn’t issue any actual money—it can just edit the dictionary every morning, announcing […]
“A virologist helped crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the economic fallout from devastating viral outbreaks. The plan was ingenious. Yet we’re still in this mess.” | learn more
The data comes from “the O*NET database, containing hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors on almost 1,000 occupations covering the entire U.S. economy.” | learn more
Andrew Chen, a16z partner, discusses the coming tech innovation and disruption in the service economy – focused on marketplaces delivering access to regulated services. Really interesting thinking! | learn more
Nick Grossman from Union Square Ventures thinks through factors that affect the difficulty to get a token economy off the ground. | learn more
Last year, a16z partner Benedict Evans published Cars and second order consequences, which digs into the idea of what happens after all cars are autonomous and electric. This series of videos by fellow a16z partner Frank Chen digs into each theme in turn: […]
If you haven’t heard of him, know that he’s one of the OG’s of the internet. He coined the term ‘open source’ software and popularized ‘web 2.0’. Now he’s questioning some of the fundamental (if arbitrary) conditions of our economy. […]