LEADER 00000nim a22004575a 4500 003 MWT 005 20191125023233.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 150105s2013 xxunnn es i n eng d 020 9781927401484 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1927401488 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ php_9781927401484_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT11187601 037 11187601|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 00 303.4|223 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Gorbis, Marina. 245 14 The Nature of the future :|bdispatches from the socialstructed world|h[Hoopla electronic resource] / |cMarina Gorbis. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bPost Hypnotic Press,|c2013. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 11 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by Michael Puttonen. 520 Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get an education, feed ourselves, and generally go about our lives. The economist Ronald Coase, in his famous 1937 paper "The Nature of the Firm," provided an economic explanation for this: Organizations lowered transaction costs, making the provision of goods and services cheap, efficient, and reliable. Today, this organizational advantage is rapidly disappearing. The Internet is lowering transaction costs- costs of connection, coordination, and trade-and pointing to a future that increasingly favors distributed sources and social solutions to some of our most immediate needs and our most intractable problems. As Silicon Valley thought-leader Marina Gorbis, head of the Institute for the Future, portrays, a thriving new relationship-driven or socialstructed economy is emerging in which individuals are harnessing the powers of new technologies to join together and provide an array of products and services. Examples of this changing economy range from BioCurious, a members-run and free-to-use bio lab, to the peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club, to the remarkable Khan Academy, a free online-teaching service. These engaged and innovative pioneers are filling gaps and doing the seemingly impossible by reinventing business, education, medicine, banking, government, and even scientific research. Based on extensive research into current trends, she travels to a socialstructed future and depicts an exciting vision of tomorrow. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 Online social networks|xEconomic aspects. 650 0 Social change. 700 1 Puttonen, Michael. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 11187601?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ php_9781927401484_180.jpeg