How much do we value human freedom? For thousands of years people of all variety of experience and influence have debated whether free will exists and which universe would be more full of virtue and good fortune—one that is fated or one that is free. Today, technology is flooding our experience with hard-to-trace information and [...]
MISSION STATEMENT Liberate Energy exists to develop the critical ingredients of an integrated decentralized clean energy economy of the future. Our strategy is as ambitious as our mission. We are working to achieve transformational breakthroughs in materials, manufacturing, and information systems — to ensure reliable, affordable, sustainable energy is available to all people, while meeting [...]
Conventional economic inquiry, business strategy and industrial production do not generally integrate all that science has come to know into standard, or even cutting edge, practice. The reasons for this are many, but the most commonly held and practiced are: it may be hard to value what science has only recently learned; whatever the value, [...]
The business models and technologies that dominate the later part of this century will transcend old-fashioned thinking about value management and resource allocation. Connection and ephemeralization would make them appear downright magical to us. Four critical capabilities that will drive these trends: Anything can be made anywhere. Technical knowledge can reach anywhere. Advanced services will [...]
