2010 May - The Emergent Fool

The Long Tail of Innovation in an Inform...

Posted by Max Marmer in Uncategorized on 05 30th, 2010 | View Comments

Once an innovation ecosystem has successfully created the structure to consistently tackle the big billion dollar opportunities, the system possesses the energy to begin evolving greater complexity, and squeezing out more efficiency. This efficiency will be realized by evolving the ecosystem to support the...

Posted by Max Marmer in Uncategorized on 05 19th, 2010 | View Comments

Right now the tech industry is the most innovative industry on the planet. Its success is in large part due to it being the first information age innovation ecosystem, which has implications for the future of the world, as we transition to an information economy. This emerging information age is just the...

Posted by Max Marmer in Uncategorized on 05 19th, 2010 | View Comments

Over the last 3 decades the technology entrepreneurship sector has been the primary sector driving economic growth. The sector initiated the information economy and has given life to thousands of innovative companies, four of which are ten of the biggest companies in the United States, including Google,...

The Safety Net...

Posted by Rafe Furst in Adjacent Possible, Dualism, Infinity, Psychology, Scarcity / Abundance, Self-Fullfilling Prophecy, Stability on 05 17th, 2010 | View Comments

The following story is true, I’ve just changed the names and told it in parable form. The material numbers and circumstances are roughly accurate, and Alice is a friend of mine who may tell the story herself on video here soon… A True Story Alice was feeling particularly poor at a certain time...

The Myth of Time...

Posted by Alex in Alternative Institutions, Artificial Intelligence, Cognition, Computation, Emergence, Levels, Social Networks on 05 16th, 2010 | View Comments

Once again, Japanese “lost decades” or massive exodus into virtual worlds? Here’s the conclusion, but I highly recommend the entire post (it may be clear as mud, but you’re gonna get dirty down the rabbit hole): “Whereas we think we are talking to each other, we are all simply...

The Future of Evolutionary Theory?...

Posted by plektix in Evolution, Mathematics, Models on 05 13th, 2010 | View Comments

Well… it’s been quite a month. This April I (a) successfully defended my PhD thesis, and (b) won a Templeton Foundation fellowship to work with Martin Nowak at Harvard for two years. For those who don’t know him, Nowak is one of the world’s top researchers in abstract evolutionary...

How Darwin’s Finches and API’...

Posted by Alex in Evolution, Interconnectedness on 05 10th, 2010 | View Comments

If you weren’t wondering about this yesterday, you are – today. You need to see things from the perspective of the gene: “These API’s represent a new indirect economy where business is conducted through interconnected services. Ramji: “I believe that we’re going...

What Would Tylen Cowen’s Portfolio...

Posted by Alex in Science 2.0 on 05 9th, 2010 | View Comments

Most investors with a long time horizon are advised to allocate a considerable portion of their portfolio to risky assets with low correlation to maximize the benefits of diversification. In “Create Your Own Economy”, Tyler makes a compelling argument that autistic “disorder” plays...

Welcome, Max Marmer...

Posted by danielhorowitz in Uncategorized on 05 7th, 2010 | View Comments

Max is a budding superstar with a considerable amount of knowledge and insight to share. We are all fortunate to have him contributing to The Emergent Fool. Welcome...

Algorithm Girls Gone Wild...

Posted by Alex in Science 2.0 on 05 6th, 2010 | View Comments

“Consider the phrase “It’s a man’s world.” As a quantitative observation endlessly repeated from within a homogenized culture, this phrase refers to the men in such a culture who have to be homogenized Dagwoods in order to belong at all. It is in our I.Q. testing that we have...

Marshall “Arts” McLuhan...

Posted by Alex in Uncategorized on 05 2nd, 2010 | View Comments

- “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” This is an intellectual heavyweight title belt fight of all time: Norman Mailer vs Marshall McLuhan (1968). This video is packed with in-sights. How much violence does it take to see? Paraphrased: 3:55 – At the peak of the mechanical age,...