{"id":6054,"date":"2012-01-19T11:03:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T05:18:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-19T11:18:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T05:18:35","slug":"we_can_rearrange_more_than_jus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/we_can_rearrange_more_than_jus\/","title":{"rendered":"We can rearrange more than just bits."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think of the mineral iron oxide, suggests Romer. It&#8217;s rust. <span class=\"nr-highlight\">More than 10,000 years ago our ancestors used iron oxide as a pigment to make art on cave walls. Now, by rearranging those same atoms into a precisely thin iron oxide film on plastic we get a floppy disk<\/span>, which can hold a reproduction of the same cave paintings, and all the possible permutations of it wrought by Photoshop. We have amplified the possibilities a millionfold.<\/p>\n<p>The power of combinatorial explosions&#8211;which is what you get with ideas and opportunities&#8211;means, says Romer, <span class=\"nr-emphasis\">&#8220;There&#8217;s essentially no scarcity to deal with<\/span>.&#8221; Because the more you use opportunities, the less scarce they get.<\/p>\n<p>Everything we know about the structure of the network economy suggests that it will bolster this efflorescence of opportunities, for the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every opportunity inhabits a connection. <span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">As we connect up more<\/span> and more of the world into nodes on a network, <span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">we make available billions more<\/span> components in the great combinatorial game. The number of possibilities explodes.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">Networks speed the transmission of opportunities<\/span> seized and innovations created, which are disseminated to all parts of the network and the planet, inviting more opportunities to build upon them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technology is no panacea. It will never solve the ills or injustices of society. Technology can do only one thing for us&#8211;but it is an astonishing thing: Technology brings us an increase in opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think of the mineral iron oxide, suggests Romer. It&#8217;s rust. More than 10,000 years ago our ancestors used iron oxide as a pigment to make art on cave walls. Now, by rearranging those same atoms into a precisely thin iron &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/we_can_rearrange_more_than_jus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"1","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[206],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}