Not crazy about the term ‘4th industrial revolution’ but getting increasingly intrigued by the class of things it points to, which now includes mRNA vaccines. Kinda groping about for the essence now. The Hunting of the Meme is on.
Software eating the world sorta kicked off the process but feels like covid+climate might be what finishes it
Word cloud: decentralization, dematerialization, biologization (organification?), bespokization (not customization/personalization), fat-lean yinyangery...
Something like this hopeless oversimplification?
First revolution: Power
Second revolution: Efficiency
Third revolution: Connection
Fourth revolution: Precision
All the commodities/intermediates shortages right now somehow fit this. It’s a deeper kind of scarcity dynamic developing due to some deep stack rebalancings in progress. Metamorphosis underway.