The Electronic Media Introduced This Idea To

Economic Activity Is No Longer An Adversarial Contest Between Embattled Sellers And Buyers "in The Distributed Economy, Where Collaboration Trumps Competition, Inclusivity Replaces Exclusivity And Transparency And Openness To Others Becomes Essential To The New Way Of Conducting Business, Empathic Sensibility Has Room To Breathe And Thrive. It Is No Longer So Constrained By Hierarchies, Boundaries Of Exclusion, And A Concept Of Human Nature That Places Acquisitiveness, Self-interest, And Utility At The Center Of The Human Experience."

What Type Of New Economical System Can Organize This System? There Is Another Sector In Our Life, That We Rely On Every Single Day, That Are Absolutely Essential: The Social Commons, The Social Economy. It Is All The Activity We Engage In To Create Social Capital. It Doesn't Create Capital Market. Social Commons Is Growing Faster Than The Market Place. It Is Growing Faster Than The Market Place. The Social Commons Include Any Activity That Is Deeply Social And Collaborative.

When We Seed Millions Of Acres Of Land With These Plants, What Happens To Foraging Birds, To Insects, To Microbes, To The Other Animals, When They Come In Contact And Digest Plants That Are Producing Materials Ranging From Plastics To Vaccines To Pharmaceutical Products?

The Very Notion That Millions Of Workers Displaced By The Re-engineering And Automation Of The Agricultural, Manufacturing, And Service Sectors Can Be Retrained To Be Scientists, Engineers, Technicians, Executives, Consultants, Teachers, Lawyers And The Like, And Then Somehow Find The Appropriate Number Of Job Openings In The Very Narrow High-tech Sector, Seems At Best A Pipe Dream, And At Worst A Delusion.

Generations Of Human Beings Were Transformed Into Machines In The Relentless Pursuit Of Material Wealth: We Lived To Work.