Corporations
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It seems to me like
corporations
are always trying to get kids, like me, to get their parents to buy stuff that really isn't good for us or the planet.
The second observation I'd like to make is we need to face the truth that governments and
corporations
aren't going to solve this issue for us.
But because they're a U.N. operation, maybe that's why governments and
corporations
are not that interested in them.
Competition means, not only were there a hundred different political units in Europe in 1500, but within each of these units, there was competition between
corporations
as well as sovereigns.
Corporations
have also become aware of the trend of gamification and the effect of games on people like Generation G. Gartner Group says that by 2015, 70% of all the Global 2000, the biggest companies in the world, will be actively using gamification, and 50% of their process of innovation will be gamified, which is an astonishing thing.
And just five
corporations
are responsible for distributing most publicly funded research.
And they calculated for the top 3,000 corporations, what are the externalities?
We recognize them in relation to
corporations.
And
corporations
are very like religions in many ways, except they're right down at the bottom of the pyramid of needs.
Parents typically get two years of investing dollars, calories and so many other resources in them, so that by the time the second born comes along, the firstborn is already ... it's what
corporations
call "sunk costs," you don't want to disinvest in this one and launch the R&D on the new product.
The one thing I've learned at the X Prize is that small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things, things that large
corporations
and governments could only do in the past.
So maybe I would take this whole idea and go to private
corporations
that would have this mutually shared benefit to it, but I was quickly told by some
corporations
that my personal passion project was not a brand fit because they didn't want their logos stamped across the ghettos of Haiti.
Now, when you consider the fact that, historically, the R&D center of a multinational company was always in the headquarters, or in the country of origin of that multinational company, to have 750 R&D centers of multinational
corporations
in India is truly a remarkable figure.
And
corporations
that still pursue maximum rate of return for their shareholders, well they suddenly look rather out of date next to social enterprises that are designed to generate multiple forms of value and share it with those throughout their networks.
Strange you might think, but if we could rely on
corporations
to tell us what they were doing in the back of their stores, we wouldn't need to go sneaking around the back, opening up bins and having a look at what's inside.
It gave me faith that we, the people, do have the power to stop this tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food on a colossal scale, if we make noise about it, tell
corporations
about it, tell governments we want to see an end to food waste, we do have the power to bring about that change.
It essentially raises charitable funds from individuals, foundations and corporations, and then we turn around and we invest equity and loans in both for-profit and nonprofit entities that deliver affordable health, housing, energy, clean water to low income people in South Asia and Africa, so that they can make their own choices.
Closed systems, corporations, make a lot of money on the open web, and they're one of the reasons why the open web lives is that
corporations
have a vested interest in the openness of the system.
I wonder if there's a third concern that some people here have already expressed, which is where, not governments, but big
corporations
control all our data.
Yuval Noah Harari: Well, in the end, there isn't such a big difference between the
corporations
and the governments, because, as I said, the questions is: Who controls the data?
CA: But somehow, at least with corporations, you can imagine market mechanisms where they can be taken down.
This is a lot of data, and because we wanted to find out "who rules the world," we decided to focus on transnational corporations, or "TNCs," for short.
So for now, they exist mostly in this realm of trade secrets and patents only universities and
corporations
have access to.
Actually, we've got ourselves locked into this Industrial Era mindset which says that the only people who can make cities are large organizations or
corporations
who build on our behalf, procuring whole neighborhoods in single, monolithic projects, and of course, form follows finance.
And when academics have done studies like this of
corporations
in the United States, what they find is 85 percent of people say yes.
The department functions like a giant human resource engine that would be the envy of even some of the most successful
corporations.
And what's interesting is that you can see that hierarchy is having a bit of a wobble, and it's all about heterarchical now, so people trust people like themselves more than they trust
corporations
and governments.
And you think,
corporations
should start taking their assets and thinking of them in a different way and trading them.
It seems farfetched, but when you think about it, in America in 1860, there were 1,600
corporations
issuing banknotes.
Corporations
are filling gaps that governments can't afford to fill.
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