Bill Davidow

Like overgrazing of public lands or over-fishing of the seas, the digital space will continue to be exploited -- and that's why it needs to be regulated.… More »

Information technology has allowed banks to make huge bets that can go bust in the blink of an eye, and more regulation won't help.… More »

Just as Henry Ford may not have predicted the rise of drive-in movie theaters, the Internet Age will produce changes to our physical landscape we can't yet envision.… More »

Call it the post-employee economy: The digital revolution is creating billions of dollars of wealth in a second world without people.… More »

Got an idea that will change the world? It'll probably have some terrible unintended consequences.… More »

The result of increased connectivity has been a more volatile and less predictable economy -- and theories that no longer apply to our frenzied world.… More »

What do many economists have in common with travel agencies, bookstores and newspapers? They've clung to beliefs and strategies that no longer work in an overconnected world.… More »

As more and more information is finding its way onto the Web, great swaths of our physical infrastructure are becoming obsolete.… More »

Our minds, bodies, and senses have evolved to live in one world at a time, but we're all trying to live in two—a physical world and a virtual one.… More »

Just as fast-food executives have capitalized on reward circuitry in our brains, savvy Internet entrepreneurs could influence our every action… More »

The euro was doomed from the beginning: The more interconnected economies become, the more they are susceptible to extreme fluctuations and death spirals… More »

Thought contagions, accelerated by the internet, push economies to the brink, burst housing bubbles, and propagate unsettling, radical ideologies… More »

The Internet facilitates the modern financial services industry, allowing firms to trade in high volumes and generate immense profits, but it also facilitates the protest of that industry, allowing dissenters to communicate their frustrations in mass… More »

We are at the point where commodity worker output can easily exceed the demand for labor… More »

Simultaneous buying and selling makes the economy extremely efficient. But in our overconnected world, it may also force us into a race to the bottom.… More »

The Internet causes connections to multiply and strengthen, creating a frenzy of positive feedback, which can drive people apart--not together… More »