What Survives When Expertise Becomes Free AI is making expertise abundant, but modern corporations were built around the opposite assumption: that expertise was scarce and had to be concentrated. That assumption shaped the modern company because every major technology revolution changes more than the tools people use. It changes the way organizations decide, coordinate, andContinue reading “The Functional Enterprise”
Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar
The Shortage in the Surge
Every technological revolution creates abundance. Every economic revolution begins with a shortage. This is the central paradox of progress. When a technological breakthrough occurs, our instinct is to gaze directly into the light of the explosion. We celebrate the elimination of a historic limitation. We conclude that the world has changed because what was onceContinue reading “The Shortage in the Surge”
The Capital Allocation Trap
Every major technology wave begins by optimizing the wrong bottleneck. Computing made calculation abundant. We built software. Bandwidth made communication abundant. We built platforms. AI made the production of intelligence abundant. So we optimized for models. Alas, that was the wrong bottleneck. AI does not just create an automation revolution. It exposes the limits ofContinue reading “The Capital Allocation Trap”
And Vijay Says... 