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Companies, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, they all need to understand this is a huge business opportunity, as well as an enormous social problem.
I think usually, as
companies
get bigger, they find it really hard to have small, innovative projects.
A lot of work happens in
companies
from people knowing each other, and informally.
Technology created by innovative
companies
will set us all free.
We have a situation where private
companies
are applying censorship standards that are often quite arbitrary and generally more narrow than the free speech constitutional standards that we have in democracies.
In fact, in the United States, whatever you may think of Julian Assange, even people who are not necessarily big fans of his are very concerned about the way in which the United States government and some
companies
have handled Wikileaks.
You have a situation where the relationship between government and local social networking
companies
is creating a situation where, effectively, the empowering potential of these platforms is being constrained because of these relationships between
companies
and government.
The other part of the story are requirements that the Chinese government places on all
companies
operating on the Chinese Internet, known as a system of self-discipline.
You have situations, for instance, in France where president Sarkozy tells the CEO's of Internet companies, "We're the only legitimate representatives of the public interest."
After all,
companies
didn't stop polluting groundwater as a matter of course, or employing 10-year-olds as a matter of course, just because executives woke up one day and decided it was the right thing to do.
All
companies
die, all
companies.
Very, very bad for economies and
companies
and cities in our present paradigm.
The question is: Is any of this true for cities and
companies?
So lastly, I'm going to finish up in this last minute or two asking about
companies.
See companies, they scale.
There it is: after some little fluctuations at the beginning, when
companies
are innovating, they scale beautifully.
And we've looked at 23,000
companies
in the United States, may I say.
What is astonishing about
companies
is that they scale sublinearly like biology, indicating that they're dominated, not by super-linear innovation and ideas; they become dominated by economies of scale.
And then this is repeated across the entire spectrum of
companies.
That's 23,000
companies.
But I read this article by Father Lee which cites a survey done by two detergent companies, Omo and Persil.
A number of pharmaceutical
companies
were working on it.
And we can also remember how the pharmaceutical
companies
were willing to pool their knowledge, to share their knowledge, in the face of an emergency, which they hadn't really been for years and years.
Designers are more trusted and more integrated into the business strategy of companies, and I have to say, for one, I feel very lucky at the progress that design has made since the first TED.
In fact, a friend of mine from the security industry told me the other day that there are two types of
companies
in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.
I mean three
companies
providing cybersecurity services to the FBI have been hacked.
Max Vision was one of the best penetration testers working out of Santa Clara, California in the late 90s for private
companies
and voluntarily for the FBI.
They're one of two
companies
that makes these massive whole-genome sequencing tools.
And the private
companies
that sell condoms in these places, they understand this.
The infectious diseases Cochrane Group, which are based in Italy, has been trying to get the full data in a usable form out of the drug companies, so they can make a full decision about whether this drug is effective or not, and they've not been able to get that information.
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