I started looking at the cost of coordination. They are going to be choked by the increased complexity and the increased cost of so-called middlemen. In order to achieve the global distribution and optimisation of materials they have to start looking at a global society, global connectivity. Middlemen and warehouses and the like were just not going to work. I'm talking about society, but wealth is created in corporations.
Corporations are the engine of wealth creation.
If you want to solve the societal problems, you have to look at the engines of wealth creation. You mentioned in your keynote the danger of having generalists moving into the IT role. Yeah, and the reason is again lessons from history. Competence is very important. If you want to build a civilisation based on information, then you must have people who really understand the dynamics and the risks.