A running series. Each piece takes one economy of intelligence and works through the same honest questions: how is value created, what becomes abundant, what becomes scarce, who benefits, and what needs to change.
The next economy will not be defined by labour or capital, but by intelligence: how we create it, organise it, augment it and turn it into value.
If software can plan and act, the old case for holding work inside a company starts to wobble.
Augmented judgement turns management into the quiet craft of designing better decisions.
When anything can be generated, the receipt matters more than the artefact.
Everyone can reach the same models, so the advantage shifts to what a firm actually remembers.
Static credentials age badly in an economy that rewrites roles every few years.
The volume of what we collect is rising far faster than the quality of what we can conclude.
Try another topic and we will find it.