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The consumer electronics company Plantronics, for example, knowing that on any given day 40% of its workforce will be working elsewhere, designed its corporate campus to only 60% capacity

Their joint enterprise, NextSpace, became their first venture into what they call “coworking,” or the creation of “shared collaborative workspaces.”

also nurtures what the authors call “managed serendipity” — ad hoc collaboration between people with diverging but complementary skills

the number of coworking spaces worldwide has shot up from 30 in 2006 to 1,130 in 2011

someone needs to keep an eye on the big picture, to “connect the dots.”

workspaces are designed on a flexible, on-demand and as-needed basis

Coonerty and Neuner found that the most productive collaborations tended to pair highly specialized experts with big-picture thinkers

they were struck by the number of entrepreneurs and freelancers working at coffee shops in the area

Business Talent Group

Clients get the specialized help they need at a cost below that of a full-time employee or traditional consulting firm, and specialists are well compensated and rewarded with flexible schedules and a greater degree of choice about which projects to take.

This has produced a new market dynamic in which the headhunter of yesteryear has been replaced by “talent brokers” who connect highly specialized talent with companies on a project-by-project basis

Matthew Mullenweg, doesn’t have much faith in traditional office buildings or corporate campuses: “I would argue that most offices are full of people not working.”

On the other hand, Mullenweg is a big believer in face-to-face collaboration and brainstorming, and flies his teams all over the globe to do so.

He also set up an informal workspace in San Francisco called the Lounge

Additionally, a 2010 Kauffman-Rand study worried that employer-based health insurance, by discouraging risk-taking, will be an ongoing drag on entrepreneurship

the problem of payroll taxes for freelancers

up to 44% of independent workers encounter difficulty getting paid fully for their work

But notice that to do this, the system had to change, the core logic was no longer the same.

The emergence of the peer model of production, based on the non-rivalrous nature and virtually non-existent marginal cost of reproduction of digital information, and coupled with the increasing unenforceability of “intellectual property” laws, means that capital is incapable of realizing returns on ownership in the cognitive realm.

capital is becoming an a posteriori intervention in the realization of innovation, rather than a condition for its occurrence

1) The creation of non-monetary value is exponential 2) The monetization of such value is linear

What this announces is a crisis of value, most such value is ‘beyond measure’, but also essentially a crisis of accumulation of capital.

more and more positive externalizations are created from the social field

“the core logic of the emerging experience economy, operating as it does in the world of non-rival exchange, is unlikely to have capitalism as its core logic.”

This takes the form both of “intellectual property” law, as well as direct subsidies from the taxpayer to the corporate economy

crisis of realization under state capitalism to capital’s growing dependence on the state to capture value from social production and redistribute it to private corporate owners

The state capitalist system will reach a point at which, thanks to the collapse of the portion of value comprised of rents on artificial property, the base of taxable value is imploding at the very time big business most needs subsidies to stay afloat.

We live in a political economy that has it exactly backwards. We believe that our natural world is infinite, and therefore that we can have an economic system based on infinite growth. But since the material world is finite, it is based on pseudo-abundance. And then we believe that we should introduce artificial scarcities in the world of immaterial production, impeding the free flow of culture and social innovation, which is based on free cooperation, by creating the obstacle of permissions and intellectual property rents protected by the state. What we need instead is a political economy based on a true notion of scarcity in the material realm, and a realization of abundance in the immaterial realm.

Brains and bodies still need others to produce value, but the others they need are not necessarily provided by capital and its capacities to organize production.

The household and informal economies have been allowed to function to the extent that they bear reproduction costs that would otherwise have to be internalized in wages; but they have been suppressed (as in the Enclosures) when they threaten to increase in size and importance to the point of offering a basis for independence from wage labor. “

increasing untenability of property rights in the information realm

there is no more outside.

one of intensive development, to grow in the immaterial field, and this is basically what the experience economy means

Innovation is becoming social and diffuse, an emergent property of the networks

failure of artificial abundance

failure of artificial scarcity