Polly Greathouse Personal RSS Feed http://www.behance.net/Greathouse World cultures hang in the balance of abundance and scarcity. Imbalances are created when technology shifts a previously scarce resource into an abundant one. The dollar is colored by many nations but swings wildly amidst the management of abundant concerns. The dollar wields less power and buys less food while more and more buying choices are available and real food is hard to come by. Spam overwhelms our custom of communication through email, and farmers are subsidized for growing corn that we cannot eat. The balance is being tipped by technology and the power rests with those who see into the future of when a resource will change from scarce to abundant: the inflexion point. A key for a winning future is to understand the potential of an abundant resource while it is still scarce. Illustrated here with radiating waves from the center support is the inflection point of a curve. This is the point at which an economy of scale enhancdes profitability, and technology leverages mass production at low cost. Profits begin to decline while abundant products are copied and increasingly accessible to masses of people. The diagram shows a delicately balanced mobile being tipped by societal challenges resulting from technological effects on resources originally considered scarce. Bandwidth is the radiant core at this inflection point. Since transistors are in the hands of every person with a phone, the central power of switching and electrical power can be managed from a global broadcast core. Much of the opportunities and challenges for creative individual capitalism will be in the judicious use of the information being transmitted via narrow bandwidth to an abundance of receivers. ~Polly Greathouse http://www.behance.net/Gallery/On-the-Edge-Scarcity-to-Abundance-and-Back-Again/128015 World cultures hang in the balance of abundance and scarcity. Imbalances are created when technology shifts a previously scarce resource into an abundant one. The dollar is colored by many nations but swings wildly amidst the management of abundant concerns. The dollar wields less power and buys less food while more and more buying choices are available and real food is hard to come by. Spam overwhelms our custom of communication through email, and farmers are subsidized for growing corn that we cannot eat. The balance is being tipped by technology and the power rests with those who see into the future of when a resource will change from scarce to abundant: the inflexion point. A key for a winning future is to understand the potential of an abundant resource while it is still scarce. Illustrated here with radiating waves from the center support is the inflection point of a curve. This is the point at which an economy of scale enhancdes profitability, and technology leverages mass production at low cost. Profits begin to decline while abundant products are copied and increasingly accessible to masses of people. The diagram shows a delicately balanced mobile being tipped by societal challenges resulting from technological effects on resources originally considered scarce. Bandwidth is the radiant core at this inflection point. Since transistors are in the hands of every person with a phone, the central power of switching and electrical power can be managed from a global broadcast core. Much of the opportunities and challenges for creative individual capitalism will be in the judicious use of the information being transmitted via narrow bandwidth to an abundance of receivers. ~Polly Greathouse http://www.behance.net/Gallery/On-the-Edge-Scarcity-to-Abundance-and-Back-Again/128015 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:09:24 -0500