• "The New American Dream is to build a profitable, sustainable, remote software business that can be run from anywhere, scales nicely, and prints money"
• 4 surges of technological development
  • Industrial Revolution: 1771 - 1829
  • Age of Steam and Railways: 1829 - 1873
  • Age of Steel and Heavy Engineering: 1975 - 1918
  • Age of Oil, Autos, and Mass Production: 1908 - 1974
  • The Information and Communications Technology Revolution: Started in 1971 and still happening
  • All characterized by
    • Some critical factor of production suddenly becoming very cheap.
    • Some new infrastructure being built.
    • A laissez-faire period of wrenching innovation followed by a bubble, a post-bubble recession, a re-assertion of institutional authority, and then a period of consolidation and wide spread of the gains in productivity from using the new technology.
    • We are moving into the “Deployment Age,” characterized by widespread acceptance and application of the new paradigm of information and communications technology.
• Conclusion
  • "You no longer need to be an engineer to build a software-enabled business"
  • "We’re moving towards a more entrepreneurial economy, which will lead to an explosion of niche software-enabled companies"
  • People on the Internet are increasingly becoming companies.

Smart demo video for Ultorg - lots of clever interface concepts (move to root)