New rules for the new economy
by Kevin Kelly · first published 1998
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A spirited and groundbreaking book in the tradition of such futuristic bestsellers as Megatrends, The Year 2000, and Future ShockForget supply and demand. Forget computers. The old rules are broken. Today, communication, not computation, drives change. We are rushing into a world where connectivity is everything, and where old business know-how means nothing. In this new economic order, success flows primarily from understanding networks, and networks have their own rules. In New Rules for the New Economy, Kelly presents ten fundamental principles of the connected economy that invert the tradi
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Kevin Kelly's New Rules for the New Economy. I gave away probably twenty copies to my friends to explain why I left one career to do a startup. Course that book and Kevin Kelly post bubble were roundly criticized. But looking back he got most…
on “Ask HN: What's one book that changed your life?” ↗I'm really getting tired of people continually bashing Kevin Kelly. Kelly's book, New rules for the new economy, was what gave me the final push to quit my job and become a software entrepreneur. But he got few things wrong in that book and the criticism was so harsh he stopped writing books for a few years. Kelly…
on “The future’s so bright, I gotta wear blinders” ↗…Almost every technical book, algorithmic book, or fun book that comes my way gets stashed on my kindle ebook account, a pdf on dropbox, or now iOS apps. Favorite trends/futurist tech book: Kevin Kelly's New Rules for the New Economy, preorded his next book created from the Technium, What Technology Wants All time favorite fantasy book: The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazney (I read the series separately then got this awesome…
on “Ask HN: What's in your current reading list?” ↗And sometimes you find little gems, too! I have a copy of "New Rules for the New Economy" by Kevin Kelly, signed as part of the Global Business Network that he and Steward Brand founded a long time ago. Having read Fred Turner's immensely great book "From Counterculture to Cyberculture",…
on “Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books (2021)” ↗This KK (Kevin Kelley) guy seems super cool. I just browsed the rest of the site. Turns out he wrote that "New Rules For The New Economy" book back in the 90s. Pretty much every post on The Technium that I've read has been insightful. He's even got a section of the site just dedicated to showcasing how people "reappropriate" i.e. actually…
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