The starting point for our scenario was the Shifting Networks of Small Firms scenario.
This is one end of a size of corporation spectrum, at which we may contemplate the possibility that there is a breakdown in the simplisitic relation between size of corporation and size of accomplishment, so that major effects are achieved by small players. To understand this you have to unpick the notion of "size", because we are really talking about greater independence between various metrics. A corporation can be large in many different respects, here are just some of them:
In terms of our special interest in The Future of The Future it is the decoupling of the last of these metrics from its predecessor which is of interest. For if this decoupling were to happen then we might find that certain very small corporations were exercising an influence on the future completely out of line with their significance as measured by the preceding metrics. | |
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