4: FOLLOW THE FREE

The task, then, is to create new things...

to send down the slide--in short, to invent items and services faster than they are commoditized.

This is easier to do in a network-based economy because the crisscrossing of ideas, the hyperlinking of relationships, the agility of alliances, and the nimble quickness with which new nodes are created all support the constant generation of new goods and services.

We will create artifacts and services rapidly, as if they were short-lived bubbles. Since we can't hold back a bubble's drift toward popping, we can only learn to make more bubbles, faster.