ANDREW MCAFEE + ERICK BRYNJOLFSSON ~ MACHINE PLATFORM CROWD ~ 2017

~ TRIAECOM ~ The Rapidly Increasing And Expanding Capabilities Of Machines

~ TRAOLAIYC-TBLRTTEIITI-TUA-P ~ The Recent Appearance Of Large And Influential Young Companies – That Bear Little Resemblance To The Established Incumbents In Their Industries – These Upstarts Are – Platforms

~ TEOTC-TSLAO-H-K-E-A-E-DAOTW-ANA-O ~ The Emergence Of The Crowd – The Startlingly Large Amount Of – Human – Knowledge – Expertise – And – Enthusiasm – Distributed All Over The World – And Now Available – Online

~ R-TBB-M&M-P&P-A-TC&TC ~ Rethink – The Balance Between – Minds And Machines – Products And Platforms – And – The Core And The Crowd

~ AFSITP-AF-LRF-LTP-A-BB-AT-CST-I-E-A-T ~ A Fundamental Shift Is Taking Place – Away From – Long-Range Forecast – Long-Term Plans – And – Big Bets – And Toward – Constant Short-Term – Iteration – Experimentation – And – Testing

~ ML-TAASOBSSTCDPAFWSAFSME ~ Machine Learning – The Art And Science Of Building Software Systems That Can Detect Patterns And Formulate Winning Strategies After Being Shown Many Examples

~ H-R ~ Hi – Robot

~ VIR-VIS ~ Virtualization Is Reality – Virtualization Is Spreading

~ SPWCTSSH-T-HI-BVIALTTTWGIOTAMGMC ~ Some People Will Continue To Self-Select Human-To-Human Interactions – But Virtualization Is A Long-Term Trend That Will Generally Increase Over Time As Machines Gain More Capabilities

~ TEOFPAI ~ The Economics Of – Free – Perfect – And – Instant

~ CCTC ~ Curation Counters The Corruptors

~ TAOPW:BD-A-BE ~ The Art Of Platform War: Be Different – And – Be Early

~ HOSP-ETTS-TAOTEOCG-MABROO-C-TDACAPETP ~ Habits Of Successful Platforms – Early To The Space – Take Advantage Of The Economics Of Complementary Goods – Maintain A Broad Rule Of Openness – Curate – To Deliver A Consistent And Positive Experience To Participants

~ DIMMSFYT-TTBYOP-OTPISE? ~ Does It Make More Sense For You To – Try To Build Your Own Platform – Or To Participate In Someone Else’s?

~ IMTOPAE-WSAPATY? ~ If More Than One Platform Already Exists – Why Should Anyone Pay Attention To Yours?

~ WVAYO-O-PAYS-FYIU? ~ What Value Are You Offering – Or – Problem Are You Solving – For Your Intended Users?

~ TPOPI ~ The Perils Of Perishing Inventory

~ TTL-LA ~ To Tread Lightly – Leverage Assets

~ GIAALTI ~ Giving It Away And Locking Them In

~ DD ~ Durable Differentiation

~ WANP ~ Writing A New Playbook

~ WTGRC-DLTTE-I-CITO ~ When Things Get Really Complex – Don’t Look To The Experts – Instead – Call In The Outsiders

~ DE-LAH-SFAROBTDTQOTW-TBS-SATWDBTOAC-BSATLTWO ~ Domain Experts – Like All Humans – Suffer From A Range Of Biases That Degrade The Quality Of Their Work – These Blind Spots – Such As The Well-Documented Biases Toward Overconfidence And Confirmation – Become Stronger And Thus Lead To Worse Outcomes

~ ICEBTM-‘E’-AAEAA-TTBKTATROUATAATQOTW ~ It Could Even Be That Many – “Experts” – Actually Aren’t Expert At All – That They’ve Been Kidding Themselves And The Rest Of Us About Their Abilities And The Quality Of Their Work

~ IT-C-FC-TS-W-ICBQHTDWAKWTTA ~ In Today’s – Complex – Fast-Changing – Technologically Sophisticated – World – It Can Be Quite Hard To Distinguish Who Actually Knows What They’re Talking About

~ TKOTC-CEBOOD-TCCBS-WTCRC ~ The Knowledge Of The Core – Can Easily Become Out Of Date – The Core Can Become Stale – While The Crowd Really Can’t

~ TCISV-ILP-BIMM-G-I-A/O-S-FAOC ~ The Crowd Is So Valuable – In Large Part – Because It’s Massively Marginal – Geographically – Intellectually – And/Or – Socially – From Any Organization’s Core

~ OAOA-TREOTCSTPBBUACIMOTC ~ Over And Over Again – The Recognized Experts Of The Core See Their Performance Beaten By Uncredentialed And Conventionally Inexperienced Members Of The Crowd

~ TCCNAALWENMOAC ~ The Crowd Can Now Accomplish A Lot Without Ever Needing Much Of A Core

~ DAO ~ Decentralized Autonomous Organization