A holistic approach to rewiring our global economic system into something more human, sustainable and free. Based on the lessons learned from social web technologies.

1. THE END OF
OBSOLESCENCE
THE WEB AS GROUND ZERO FOR
THE POST-CONSUMER ECONOMY
by LANE BECKER & THOR MULLER

2. PREVIEW
I. How We Got Here
II. A New Dynamic
III.Rewiring the System

3. I.
HOW WE GOT HERE

4. “
COLLAPSITARIAN
”

5. GOOD NEWS!
Things are getting better
precisely because
Things are getting worse

6. CRASH!
BOOM!

7. TOTAL CREDIT MARKET DEBT AS A % OF GDP
350%
UH OH.

9. DISPOSABLE
CULTURE
• Companies (sell stuff => hire people)
SCE NCE
• Employees (get paid, benefits) OBSOLE
• LAN NED
P
Buyers (want new and improved)
LOCK-IN
• Debtors (borrow to afford)
• Banks (lend)
• China (lend to lenders!)
TER
• Shareholders (cash in) IS BET
BIGGER
• Media (promote the system)
• Politicians (represent the system)
GROWTH IS
HOORAY FOR EVERYTHING
CONSUMERISM

10. THE
OWNERSHIP
SOCIETY
AS SEEN ON TV!

11. THOSE WHO CREATE VALUE
THOSE WHO CREATE
THINGS OF NO VALUE
Text
THOSE WHO MOVE
VALUE AROUND

12. THE GREAT COMPRESSION

13. VALUE DESTRUCTION AT WORK
OH SHIT! {

14. “Job Losses Hint at Vast
Remaking of U.S. Economy”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/business/economy/07jobs.html?hp

15. HITTING
BOTTOM

16. REBIRTH

17. MARCO POLO
1254-1325

18. “BEATUS”
MAP

19. CATALAN ATLAS
1375

20. PTOLEMY
90-168

21. RISE OF THE
MERCHANT CLASS

22. THE AGE OF
EXPLORATION

23. THE RISE OF DEMOCRACY

24. MANIFEST DESTINY

26. ASPIRATIONAL
CONSUMPTION

27. SPACE RACE

28. CONSUMERISM

29. TIME FLIES
LIKE A...

30. II.
A NEW DYNAMIC

31. CH-CH-CH-CHANGES

32. MARCO POLO
REDUX
• Redefine what is imaginable
• Reshape demand
• New relationship to information

33. A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT
THE DIAMOND AGE
The Universal Copymachine
Physics + Culture at the heart of the problem

34. THE BUFFALO CULTURE
Doing More in the Land of Less

35. USING THE WHOLE
ANIMAL

36. THE WHOLE
CUSTOMER
Needs
Transactions Ideas
Emotions Expertise
Engagement
Quality Social
Assurance Network

37. 6 THEMES OF THE
BUFFALO CULTURE

38. PURPOSE
INTEGRATED INTO THE LIFE OF TRIBE

39. HIDDEN
VALUE
...IN THINGS
WE USED
TO DISMISS

40. A MIGRATORY PATH

41. GATHERING
OF THE
TRIBES

42. CONSTRAINTS
BREED INNOVATION

43. REVERENCE

44. III.
REWIRING THE
SYSTEM

45. MIRACLE OF THE
COMMONS
http://www.flickr.com/photos/africankelli/3373503544/

46. THE REPAIR
CULTURE

47. FO GNISSELB EHT
NOITAVONNI
INNOVATION
THE CURSE OF

48. CUSTOMER COMMUNITIES
FOR EVERYTHING

49. AN ECOSYSTEM IS BORN

50. REPUTATION
SCALED

51. COLLECTIVE REP

52. TIDY TOWNS

53. THE LOANERSHIP
SOCIETY

55. UTILIZE THIS!

56. SUBSCRIPTION MODELS
FOR EVERYTHING

57. PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP
VS. STEWARDSHIP

58. VIRTUAL
PRODUCTION

60. GOODS VS. BETTERS

61. EFFORTLESS MARKET
FORMATION

62. PLATFORMIZATION
OF THE PLANET

63. NEW METRICS
WATTZON.ORG

64. GROSS NATIONAL
HAPPINESS (GNH)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maniya/541287799/

65. http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrebernardodotcom/2777568621/
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