[FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

I just listened to this podcast https://feeds.megaphone.fm/VMP5489734702 a conversation between the former prosecutor, Joyce Vance, and the musician, financier, turncoat Facebook investor Roger Mcnamee, who likens this moment with big tech to the moment before the food industry regulations

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

I can see living without Facebook (I do), but why can't we live with Amazon? It seems like they did a pretty good job of displacing the likes of Walmart. It could happen again. What added inherent value do stores have, other than as a mechanism to prevent he consolidation of market influence

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Marcus, I would like to be convinced .. But Imagined a world in which we all worked at home, everything was on zoom, and everything was delivered by Amazon by drone. I realize this is a reductio, but hum along with me for a few bars. There would be no intermediate social landscape betwee

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

While I’m not particularly a big fan of Bezos the cowboy billionaire, I do like Amazon the marketplace. Lots of small and large retailers offering goods from all over the world (okay, China) with buyers’ ability to comment on and rate the products. With a behemoth at least sort of standing behind t

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Nick writes: < Imagined a world in which we all worked at home, everything was on zoom, and everything was delivered by Amazon by drone. I realize this is a reductio, but hum along with me for a few bars. There would be no intermediate social landscape between the home and the distribution ce

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

Hmm. In the late sixties my younger sister urged me to go to her stylist and to request that my hair "be styled in a razor cut." To me the result looked the same as when I went to my barber. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Jan 2,

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

Well, there you go, buy a https://flowbee.com/ and that's one less trip. From: Friam on behalf of Frank Wimberly Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 1:24 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!?? Hmm. In the l

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

😐 --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 1:27 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Well, there you go, buy a https://flowbee.com/ and that's one less trip. > > -- > *From:* Friam on behalf of Frank Wimberl

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So, what does a healthy 2040 community look like. What are we working TOWARD, here. Once of the things that the Mcnamee podcast highlighted for me was my feeling that, in a chaotic world, people like me, planners, are just out of tune with the world. By the way, I think "surfing the web" ,

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Nick writes: < So, what does a healthy 2040 community look like. What are we working TOWARD, here. Once of the things that the Mcnamee podcast highlighted for me was my feeling that, in a chaotic world, people like me, planners, are just out of tune with the world. > I don't think it really

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

So what do your present investments look like? n Nick Thompson thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 2:58 PM To