Hi Tim, you are right, creating some kind of roadmap for this project is a great idea. We can identify the main points we going to cover and then source articles for reference.
What we want is a balance between texts that cover new technologies on the one hand and texts that describe the transformation of our society and its value system on the other. It’s very important to stress that the fact that new technologies need to lead to a higher form of societal development. Only if the vast majority of people benefit from emerging technologies and business models will they be ready to embrace them. For example, here is an articles that describes a better alternative to the ‘winner-takes-all’ principle current unicorn startups are based on: Start-ups shouldn't try to be unicorns—they should be zebras
Only a tiny percentage of people will every be able to create unicorn (out of whom most are white males from the US) so how can get the majority of our potential readers exited about unicorns? However, the zebra approach makes much more sense because it based on fairer principles such as humanity_first
Here is a quote from Mara Zepeda’s article:
Why zebras?
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To state the obvious: unlike unicorns, zebras are real.
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Zebra companies are both black and white: they are profitable and improve society. They won’t sacrifice one for the other.
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Zebras are also mutualistic: by banding together in groups, they protect and preserve one another. Their individual input results in stronger collective output.
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Zebra companies are built with peerless stamina and capital efficiency, as long as conditions allow them to survive.
