Technologies have created a second economy - a virtual and autonomous economy - and this is certainly true. Today, however, I believe that the main feature of this autonomous economy is not simply that it is deepening the physical economy. It is the fact that it now provides constant external intelligence for business - intelligence that is not housed internally in human workers, but externally in the algorithms and machines of the virtual economy. Corporate, engineering and financial processes can now turn to gigantic “libraries” of intelligent functions that greatly enrich their activities - and little by little make human activities obsolete.
