New Economy, New Wealth by Arthur Brock on Prezi. New Vortex of Understanding about. Sources of Wealth: Pwm_bok.pdf (application/pdf Object) Private Wealth. The Wealth of Networks » Chapter 5: Individual Freedom: Autonomy. The emergence of the networked information economy has the potential to increase individual autonomy.
First, it increases the range and diversity of things that individuals can do for and by themselves. It does this by lifting, for one important domain of life, some of the central material constraints on what individuals can do that typified the industrial information economy. The majority of materials, tools, and platforms necessary for effective action in the information environment are in the hands of most individuals in advanced economies. Second, the networked information economy provides nonproprietary alternative sources of communications capacity and information, alongside the proprietary platforms of mediated communications. Building America One Business at a Time. MidasNotes-Rob Slee's comments on the Nation.