The Digital Economist
Hi, I'm Sam Birmingham. I love startups, innovation and challenging the status quo.
For the vast majority of my years, economies have grown, companies have profited and people have got richer on the back of a once-in-a-lifetime demographic shift and debt-fuelled boom. Those days are through.
Economies must evolve beyond rampant consumerism and confront the demographic headwind that had been a tailwind until the Baby Boomers began retiring. Companies must become nimble, innovate and invent new products to address customers' ever-changing needs in this digitally-disrupted world. And as people, we must focus on solving problems and learn to do more with less.
These are the challenges that excite me. They are what I want to get out of bed each morning and be a part of. This is where I share my thoughts.
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Fred Wilson at Le Web:
We don’t think about technologies, we think about trends…
When I think about the most important trends, I think of three:
- The transition from bureaucratic hierarchies to technology-driven networks;
- Unbundling… everything is getting unbundled. People are starting to deliver much more focused services, best-of-breed services, and you can buy them a la carte;
- We are all now personally a node on the network, because of smartphones.
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