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How the Intelligence Age could take us to a $1Q and $10Q economy without AGI

I hadn't either - came across it randomly on Twitter and then saw it a few months later on Product Hunt - coordinating time zones with a remote team can be a huge challenge!

Opportunity cost is real! $200,000 in lost income is $200,000 in lost income - there are no two ways about it...

This observation goes well beyond enterprise software - this is preferred modus operandi of "legacy" companies, and in my mind the primary reason anyone that prefers autonomy has a hard time working for these companies. When you are the size of Walmart, unless you are strategist working for Walmart corporate, you want your employees to behave like soldiers in the military. This is not surprising given that the modern multi-national corporation, was built on the top down hierarchical model shaped after the military industrial complex. Whats further true is that, this was arguably the best way to organize a large group of people towards a common objective (increasingly share holder value in the case of the better run organizations, or executive compensation in the case of the worst type of these organizations) until very recently. However this model has run its course, and will have a very hard time defending itself against smaller, but very scalable and nimble organizations. Just as the US military realized post 9/11 that it was equipped to fight 20th century wars, but not 21st century wars, which look much more like insurgencies and are way more distributed in nature, large MNC's will have to realize that their top down, process first organization structure is doomed to fail! All we need now is more entrepreneurs to look away from social media a bit and follow Musk's lead in creating real, but more scalable and nimble companies.

Very interesting, thanks! I knew something like this had been trialled in South Korea, but wasn't aware of the Tesco connection - the video clears it up though Tesco is brands itself under Home Plus in South Korea.

Brilliant! now all one has to do is bypass the Firewall ACL rule that blocks Twitter, and productivity will begin to sky rocket.

This was apparently an infrastructure problem of some sort: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/tom-joyce-knight-is-open-for-...

Infrastructure changes can be notoriously difficult to back out by simply using an "off" switch, particularly if this was some type of a firmware upgrade that impacted all of their production servers. Backing it out at a minimum would require some type of a reboot, which would cause problems with an active trades. It could very well be that they were running an Active-Active environment, they had to go Active-Passive, back out the changes from the passive environment, reboot, and surgically cut over to the passive environment. This could easily take 30 minutes.