Big Informality
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This document discusses the relationship between small technology and informal economies. It notes that as complexity increases due to factors like thermodynamics, demographics, and shifting values, informality and simplicity will rise to meet complexity. Small, lightweight tools and platforms will enable connected cultures of informality. There are opportunities to focus on collaboration instead of competition, adaptability over control, and enabling open systems that allow for graceful evolution over time.
Big Informality
- 1. Small Tech Big Informality: Informal Economies and Small Technology Scott Smith Changeist @changeist
- 2. Meta-unstable http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/10/metainstability.html Image: Flickr / Doyoubleedlikeme
- 3. Image: Flickr / Doyoubleedlikeme
- 4. Image: Flickr / kjrob
- 5. Complexity _ Thermodynamics _ Demographics _ Values Image: Flickr / Godwind
- 6. Patents Image: Flickr / dannysullivan
- 7. Growth Functional Innovation Resilience
- 8. Image: Flickr / John McNab
- 9. Image: Flickr / Icarus Kuwait
- 10. Complexity Informality Formality Simplicity
- 14. Image: Make
- 18. Image: Flickr / hhjj
- 19. Image: Wired
- 20. Pirate P2P Skunkworks Austerity DIY Connected Cultures of Informality Lightweight Tools and Pla1orms
- 21. Opportunities • Shift from capture and conversion to co-existence and collaboration. • Focus on adaptability and permeability • Understand graceful decay • Selective injection and open ports • Light-touch enablement