{"id":4856,"date":"2011-01-05T15:55:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T10:45:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-05T17:59:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T11:59:46","slug":"if_the_system_settles_into_har","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/if_the_system_settles_into_har\/","title":{"rendered":"If the system settles into harmony and equilibrium&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8230;it will eventually stagnate and die.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Innovation is disruption; constant innovation is perpetual disruption. This seems to be the goal of a well-made network: to sustain a perpetual disequilibrium. A few economists studying the new economy (among them Paul Romer and Brian Arthur) have come to similar conclusions. Their work suggests that <span class=\"nr-emphasis\">robust growth sustains itself by poising on the edge of constant chaos<\/span>. &#8220;If I have had a constant purpose it is to show that transformation, change, and messiness are natural in the economy,&#8221; writes Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between chaos and the edge of chaos is subtle. Apple Computer, in its attempt to seek persistent disequilibrium and stay innovative, may have tottered too far off-balance and let itself unravel toward extinction. <span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">Or, if its luck holds, it may discover a new mountain to ascend after a near-death experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The dark side of flux is that the new economy builds on the constant extinction of individual companies as they&#8217;re outpaced or morphed into yet newer companies in new fields. Industries and occupations also experience this churn. Even a sequence of rapid job changes for workers&#8211;let alone lifetime employment&#8211;is on its way out. Instead, <span class=\"nr-highlight\">careers&#8211;if that is the word for them&#8211;will increasingly resemble networks of multiple and simultaneous commitments with a constant churn of new skills and outmoded roles<\/span>. About 20% of the American workforce already have an arrangement other than the traditional employee relationship with one employer. And 86% of them claim to be happy about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it will eventually stagnate and die. Innovation is disruption; constant innovation is perpetual disruption. This seems to be the goal of a well-made network: to sustain a perpetual disequilibrium. A few economists studying the new economy (among them Paul Romer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/if_the_system_settles_into_har\/\">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":[204],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}