Radarici’s Reviews > Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World > Status Update

Very interesting discussion about the importance and transformation on the culture consumption and how the technology is transforming the way we consume and interact with cultural goods. Here is two quotations I think is remarkable:
'We don't always recognize or appreciate intelligence when it appears in unusual or nontraditional forms {...} we also tend to miss unfamiliar forms of beauty.'

Very interesting discussion about autism, avoidng the classical approach to this condition which often tends to characterized the autists as low-cognitive capable and callous people. Rather Cowen try to draw a parallel between the way autist people realize and interact with data and the way the new digital world (and economy) works.

"One strong feature of autism is the tendency of autistic to impose additional structure on information by the acts of arranging, organizing, classifying, collecting. memorizing, categorizing and listing. Austistics are information lovers to an extreme degree and they are the people who engage with information most passionately."

"This book will start and end with the idea of the value and creative power of the individual. This is the ultimate driver of prosperity in the modern world."