Why Information Grows | Cesar Hidalgo | Talks at Google
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2015
- Cesar Hidalgo
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Recorded in London, June 2015
About the book:
In Why Information Grows, rising star Cesar Hidalgo offers a radical interpretation of global economics. What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But MIT professor Cesar Hidalgo argues that in order to fully grasp the nature of economic growth we need to transcend the social sciences and turn to the science of information, networks and complexity. The growth of economies, he explains, is deeply connected with the growth of order - or information. At first glance, the universe seems hostile to order. Thermodynamics dictates that over time, order will disappear. But thermodynamics also has loopholes that promote the growth of information in pockets. Our cities are such pockets where information grows, but they are not all the same. For every Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and London, there are dozens of places with underdeveloped economies. Why does the US economy outstrip Brazil's, and Brazil's that of Chad? Why did the technology corridor along Boston's Route 128 languish while Silicon Valley blossomed?
In each case, the key is how people, companies, and the networks they form process information - it is all about their knowledge, knowhow and imagination. As Hidalgo compellingly shows, economies are made of networks of people and society is a collective computer. The problem of economic development is in fact the problem of making these networks more powerful. A radical new interpretation of global economics, Why Information Grows overturns traditional assumptions about the development of economies and the origins of wealth and takes a crucial step toward making economics less the dismal science and more the insightful one.
The book can be purchase here:
play.google.com/store/books/d... - Фільми й анімація
I cannot recommend the audio book enough. The actual book is a masterpiece and the audiobook makes it effortless to get through. This book is one of the big ones (and few) that help us make sense of our existence.
This gentleman is brilliant!
finished his book last week - great way of understanding the world's building complexity. Reccomend reading On Intelligence it is a great compliment to how our brains make sense of the world's complexity.
jesus guys! This sound quality from Google is unexpected. Please fix
This is one of the most interesting talks you've had in a while... it's a shame it's so hard to hear.
Fix audio - PLEASE!
This guy certainly did an interesting talk, but you should do something about the sound. Seriously, I had to turn the volume to the max and I still couldn't catch what he was saying.
Cesar speaks very dynamically, it might have something to do with his religion (Church out in California has a tendency of swelling the volume periodically to create dullness than excitement).
Apart from that, some-one forgot to put a compressor after the microphone but before the computer, doing so in postproduction compresses the video as well as the audio (its impossible to do ITB ATM IMO). At 6.30 there is a nicer sound, with less distortion and if you close your eyes you can imagine your in the room. Well recorded !
That dislike must be for the audio, because this was a great talk, from entropy to economics as processing power. This guy was great, and the sites he worked on are too.
Grazie
Cesar is really smart guy .
good content, bad sound quality, speed and clarity.
5:14 "when systems self-organize to produce as little entropy as possible, order emerges." Later, he also calls himself an anti-nationalist, against borders. But, for systems to self-organize and produce as little entropy as possible, boundaries are essential. That scales all the way from the smallest to the largest, even up to nations.
Why he talk so fast? Please calm down, I want to hear. :-)
jandroid33 So you didn't discover the playback speed setting yet? Click on settings and ssslllllooowwwww doooowwwwwnnnn tttoooo 1/4th nnnooorrrmmmaaaalllll sssppppeeeeddddd. Eeeeeennnnjjjjooooyyyyy.
Michael Hasenstein Haha, yes I had forgotten that but remembered it after I wrote the comment..
I'm not sure it helped that much though due to the poor sound quality. I really need to concentrate to get what he's saying.
Thanks!
As a latin american I would say that we always talk really fast and also he is Chilean, they speak super fast
because is Chilean. Chileans speak fast.
"why bullshit grows?"
chileans tend to shitpost everywhere and everytime