SOCIETY
Issue #474
9 Nov 2025
Any article which references Ronald Coase gets a thumbs up from me, but as I read further it became clear that this fascinating essay had so much more to offer. The fundamental challenges which created the modern company (see how Dutch more or less invented in No12 below), are giving way to new challenges where organisational hierarchies can no longer absorb the increased yet distributed capacity of the AI-enabled workers. Also includes a thread about how agency emerges from the interaction of actors+network. Big picture - massive picture - brainfood.