AI, technology, education, and ideas about what comes next.
AI may be weakening one of the traditional reasons companies needed to become large: the need to employ large numbers of specialists. As AI turns specialized capability into something that can be summoned on demand, a new organizational form may emerge—the lean micro-corporation, with a tiny human core commanding enormous productive capacity.
AI is making intelligence, coordination and information cheaper. Could that eventually change how money, local economies and even government work?
AI may do more than replace individual tasks. By automating information processing, coordination and decision-making, it could compress the managerial hierarchy itself.