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More Knowledge

• More Knowns, More Unknowns & More Uncertains

More Change

Faster Change

More Complex Rules - laws, customs, etc

• occupation certifications

Discoveries

• Germ Theory of Disease - Louis Pasteur - 1850s - a pathogen too small to see with microscopes
• Viruses - discovered in 1890
• 1918 Pandemic - couldn't see virus - 3 soccer ball versus human cell (Soccer field)
• Electron microscope - invented in 1931 - viruses were two small for regular microscopes
• DNA Double Helix
• Sequence Human Genome
• mRNA discovery
• CRISPR - Jennifer Doudna And Emmanuelle Charpentier won Nobel Prizes (2020)

Democracy vs Autocracy

• Freedoms & Liberty are complex
• Recording phone calls (security) - bad for privacy (freedoms)
• Free Speech - Incite hate and volence vs. no free speech = suppression
• Majorities vs minorities

Economic Capitalism vs. Liberty, Justice, Security & Enablement

Gamechangers

• Cognitive Revolution
• Agriculture
• Science
• Industrial
• Industrial Revolution
• Digititization
• Artifical Intelligence

Innovations - The unintended consequences.

• Computers
• Social Media
• Internet
• GPS
• Sequencing Human Genomes
• Antibiotics
• Vaccines

Increase Expectations

• Resulting from innovations - the poors has many things the rich didn't have 100 years ago

Microbes - Ed Jong "I Contain Multitudes"

• Human Health - Microbiome - antibiotics, now fecal transplants
• Soil - a farmer used to ask, what am I killing today. Regenerative Agriculture
• Food - alcohol, cheese, yogurt,
• Medication - antibiotics, biologics, etc.
• Pathogens
• Microbiome - antibiotics misuse & fecals transplants
• Oceans

More "Tax Code"

• Federal - see first income tax code
• State
• Local - 10,000 governments

More Complex Disclosures

• Asymmetric legal knowledge and little recourse if you understand and/or disagree
• Insurance (20+ pages) - health, auto, home - to protect tehm - do you have a pandemic rider?
• Product or services warrantees
• Data Privacy disclosures - to protect them - do you have a pandemic rider?
• Banking, Investing, etc.
  

Asymmetric transactions are also known as "information failure," occurs when one party to an economic transaction possesses greater material knowledge than the other party.

More Complex Agreements

• Loans, information,
• Apps - 100+ agreements - 20-30 pages
• Services - wireless phones
• Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Zoom - any idea what you are saying "I agree"

More Research

• Non-Radomized Real World Evidence (RWE) vs. Randonized Control Trials (RCTs)
• Published on sites before Peer Review

More Choices

• Food Choices

More Life Domains to Manage

• Data Security - Hacking, Identity Theft, data breaches, ransomware
• Credit Rating
• Social Media
• Information Technology - Apps, Phones, Laptops, etc. - managing updates, refreshes, digital photos, & vidoes

More Fact Bubbles

• More polarization

More Diversity

• More people - Empathy is harder
• More ideas
• More culture

More Specialization

• Medical - every organ has a physician
• Jobs - Hunter and Gatherer to occupations

More Job Skills

• Navigate apps
• Typying emails people open
• Managing Zomm calls

More "Job Types"

• Hunter & Gatherer to today

More Tech Skills

• Online zoom education