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A renowned futurist offers a eye-sight of the reinvented world. Large organizations, big government authorities, and other centralized organizations have long identified and dominated just how we work, gain access to medical, get an education, give food to ourselves, and generally start our lives. The economist Ronald Coase, in his famous 1937 newspaper "The Nature of the Firm," provided an monetary explanation for this: Organizations decreased deal costs, making the provision of goods and services cheap, reliable, and reliable. Today, this organizational gain is quickly disappearing. The Internet is lowering deal costs - costs of interconnection, coordination, and trade - and pointing to another that progressively more favors distributed options and social solutions to some of our most immediate needs and our most intractable problems. As Silicon Valley thought-leader Marina Gorbis, mind of the Institute for the Future, portrays, a flourishing new relationship-driven or "socialstructed" market is emerging where individuals are harnessing the powers of new technology to join along and provide a range of products and services. Types of this changing market range from BioCurious, a members-run and free-to-use bio laboratory, to the peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Membership, to the amazing Khan Academy, a free of charge online coaching service. These engaged and ground breaking pioneers are filling up spaces and doing the seemingly impossible by reinventing business, education, medicine, banking, government, and even clinical research. Based on considerable research into current trends, she travels to a socialstructed future and depicts an exciting eye-sight of tomorrow.
