Free clip: Scale and scalability

  • Free clip from 8 Jul webinar
  • The single greatest force driving modern economies, society and politics is scalability
  • It is the common narrative underlying the dominance of big tech, through to the teen mental health crisis and the rise of political polarization and populism
  • Markets tend to treat scale as a largely linear concept
  • But human systems change character at scale - and ultimately have breaking points
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In markets we are used to thinking that more always means more. Economies of scale and network effects are the secret of Big Tech's outsized profits; they also help explain the tendency towards US exceptionalism and the dominance of the dollar.

But a moment's consideration of real world phenomena reveals plenty of instances where at some point more very definitely starts meaning less - most obviously in terms of the human impact on the environment, but even in terms of our consumption of food, drugs and increasingly of social media.

This presentation is not so much an outlook as a state-of-the-world - but seems necessary when AI is set to turbocharge our ability to produce information at scale, and yet individuals' and societies' ability to cope with it is increasingly questionable. The webinar should hopefully help make sense of the rather eclectic range of the slides, which draw on themes from economics to politics to psychology to neuroscience to network analysis.

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