economy

Is Freedom A New Economic Paradigm?

December 10, 2009

A New Economic System of the country of Montenegro is based on complete and unfettered economic freedom; in other words, the elimination of all barriers to conducting business. Does this, in fact, lead to a new paradigm?

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Why is college measured in “degrees”?

December 9, 2009

The information that fuels the next economic paradigm will not be captured in the form of college degrees; rather, it will be captured in extremely detailed granularity of unique collections of knowledge assets in diverse combinations of persons that solve complex puzzles – and then share the solution with others.

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Counting Eyeballs

October 26, 2009

The Advertising Industry has some serious problems. Ad agencies are having a difficult time understanding the modern advertising space with the limited, if not worthless, paradigm carried over from the days of radio; the CPM.

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The Invisible People

October 16, 2009

America does not know what Americans knows. Entrepreneurs do not know what knowledge is available to them. Markets do not know the supply and demand of knowledge assets. The self-correcting magic of market capitalism is utterly unavailable if people and their knowledge assets are invisible.

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Building a Better Entrepreneur; Google 10^100

September 27, 2009

Google 10^100 award voting is Launched. There are two sectors that we believe would have the greatest impact on the greatest amount of people; building a better banking system and funding social entrepreneurs. You can’t have one without the other – if Google funds these two sectors in concert, the outcome would be incredible.

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Listening For What People are Listening For

August 20, 2009

Most people do not listen completely in conversations because they are too busy planning their response to what they think the other person is going to say. Often what seems like astute response is a template that may fit a moment but can kill a conversation.

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The 1.6 Trillion Dollar Waste of Time

July 15, 2009

Countless blog articles and news reports are complain about information overload in our society. 1.6 Trillion dollars worth of human productivity are lost every year. The Ingenesist Project changes everything. So what will we do with all the time saved? we’ll spend it with friends and family telling them about the great products that empower us.

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Is a social contract legally binding…and who cares?

July 13, 2009

The Ingenesist Project posits that trillions upon trillions of dollars worth of value that is being transferred to social media from a legacy economy stifled by insurmountable debt. These numbers are indeed spectacular because they account for the value “lost”, and most importantly, the calculations provides clues on how to “find” it again.

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Social Media Strikes Back

June 26, 2009

In order to predict where social media will strike next all we need to do is look for the waste economy; areas where world governments, institutions, and corporations are inefficient, wasteful, co opted, or corrupt.

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Is the Corporate Structure Obsolete?

June 24, 2009

In short, we have seen social media replace or duplicate almost every structural element of the traditional corporation outside of the construct of corporations. Can social media provide a corporate structure in and among itself?

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The Second Impression of Social Media

May 7, 2009

As we move away from the ROI valuation model for social media and adopt a more dynamic ‘options’ analysis, a different picture emerges. The next economic paradigm will emerge as a function of people exercising their options.

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I Am Capitalist and So Are You

March 16, 2009

In case you have not noticed, it is largely in the best interest of one group of people to keep another group of people poor, weak, and disorganized. I’ll let the reader connect these dots as they see fit, however, the fact is that is how capitalism works

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The Fertilizer Economy

March 15, 2009

The bad news is that United States has a global comparative advantage in producing bullshit. The good news is that we may actually be able to till it into fertilizer for the Innovation economy.

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Innovation Bonds: 3 Million Jobs

February 26, 2009

Another approach for spending a Trillion dollars (backed by debt) would be for the government to issue innovation bonds (backed by innovation) to fund new enterprise.  Surely the World still greatly admires and respects American Ingenuity (social capital, intellectual capital, and creative capital) and would likely buy such a financial instrument instead of more of [...]

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Necessity Is The The Mother of All Stimuli

February 10, 2009

The Ingenesist Project is to induce a crowd sourced innovation economy by integrating Social Media with three web applications. It’s all about to become extremely exciting.

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The Great Convergence

December 8, 2008

Hey Kids, It’s 3D: The objective of this article is to discuss the Great Convergence of computer enabled society. Social media must not be allowed to converge to a single apex – rather, it must converge to 3 distinct and tangible dimensions. The factors of production for the industrial economy are land, labor, and capital.  [...]

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Social Media; The Opportunity of a Century

December 1, 2008

The Perfect Storm: We are at an historic time in human history; one that may never repeat itself again. The current financial crisis may provide just enough disruption for a completely new economic paradigm to emerge; the Innovation Economy.  We cannot squander this moment arguing over common logon for our Twitter and Facebook profiles; a [...]

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Social Media; A Public Innovation System

November 21, 2008

In order to restructure our financial system; we first need to restructure our innovation system.  ALL of the top ten reasons for business failure are due to a lack of knowledge, not a lack of money. Top 10 reasons why businesses fail: 1.    Lack of an adequate, viable business plan 2.    Insufficient sales to sustain [...]

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Tangible Knowledge; Options and Contingencies

November 19, 2008

In order for knowledge to become a tangible asset, we need to come to grips with the fact that human knowledge is fluid and mobile, whereas a condo or a piece of machinery is static.  A machine can’t walk away if it does not like their management. With knowledge assets, the typical “Return on Investment” [...]

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The Ingenesist Project – press release

October 21, 2008

We have launched The Ingenesist Project. The Innovation Economy is an absolutely huge and necessary step forward for all of us. The current financial system is unstable and it will fail. At best, the innovation economy can increase human productivity sufficiently to support the debt load. At worst, there needs to be a system of [...]

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The Ingenesist Project

October 17, 2008

The Ingenesist Project; Putting an End to Debt Economics The U.S. National Debt is over 10 trillion dollars. Assuming deficit spending stops today, every man, woman, and child in the US is responsible for $33,500.00. This means that $33,500.00 of every person’s productivity has already been spent. Obviously, the only way to pay the debt [...]

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Economics of Innovation

September 16, 2008

Every time humans invent better ways of doing things, the economy gets a little bigger. This is a simple idea. The cave dwellers discovered that they did not have to travel as much hunting and gathering if they could sharpen a rock enough to chop a tree down for firewood or for spearing animals.  That [...]

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