10 The Economy 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
10.1 We Can, We Must Re-Invent Everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
10.2 Personalized Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
10.3 Science and Health, Fueled by Big Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
10.4 Banking and Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
10.5 In the Wake of Big Data, the Pillars of Democracies
Are Shaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
10.6 Industry 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
10.7 New Avenues in Production, Transportation,
and Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
10.8 Where Are We Heading? New Forms of Work . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
10.9 Everyone Can Be an Entrepreneur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
10.10 Prosumers—Co-Producing Consumers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
10.11 Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
10.12 Allowing Diverse Resources to Come Together Quickly . . . . . 212
10.13 Towards a More Resilient Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
10.14 A New Kind of Economy Is Born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
10.15 Emergence of a Participatory Market Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
10.16 Supporting Collective Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
10.17 Preparing for the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
10.18 Appendix 1: Re-Inventing Innovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
10.18.1 Micropayments Would Be Better . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
10.19 Appendix 2: Multi-Dimensional Value Exchange . . . . . . . . . . 222
10.19.1 We Could All Be Doing Well . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
11 The Self-Organizing Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
11.1 Cybernetic Society Versus Synergetic Society:
Why Top-Down Control Will Fail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
11.2 Omnibenevolence Doesn’t Exist—It’s an Illusion,
Despotism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
11.3 Time for a New Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
11.4 How to Make the “Invisible Hand” Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
11.5 The Secrets of Self-Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
11.6 Cultures as Collections of Invisible Success Principles . . . . . . 233
11.7 Locality as Success Principle of the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
11.8 Cities as Agents of Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
11.9 City Olympics to Improve the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
11.10 Just a Thought: Regions Rather Than Nations? . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
11.11 How to Manage Our Future: Some Proposals
for Immediate Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
11.12 Let’s Get Started! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
11.13 Appendix 1: Where Might the Digital Revolution
Take Us? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
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