From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2015 5:11 PM
To: Joi Ito
Subject: Re:

solutions like nouns are the end. of a computation .=questions are the beginning and middle. . open ended . like th= name joi. its much more authentic to say you are joing. =A0in process of change . bounded by the object know as a joi

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015=at 1:07 PM, Joi Ito < Nrote:

## One other thought.

Have been thinking that engineers like to "solve" things. A=e answers to questions "solutions"? How is the role of ima=ination? What about "what if?" questions rather than quest=ons with solutions?

- Joi

> On Jun 7, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Joi Ito wrote:

>

> "mean but funny..)" Am I the only one who is every mean a=d funny to you? If so, it's important I think. For your fitness. >

> The question is great, but the question about the question, or the que=tion of what is the "highest" question or an even "be=ter" question is also sort of funny. It's recursive up in = weird way.

>

> - Joi

>

» On Jun 7, 2015, at 9:01 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeeva=ation@gmail.com> > wrote:

>>

» mean but funny..) ; if you have read kant =is principles are equivalent to arrows in cat theory. h= did not have the formal apparatus to analyze. . amusing. =AO economics is a description of the category of exchanges.=C2 . it is not limited to money or information , it is a process = not a noun

>>

> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Joi Ito <joi@ito.com> wrote:
> Not your old age question?
> 
> : -)
> 
> It's like Jeopardy except that Watson won't have t=e answer.
> 
> One of my faculty, Cesar Hidalgo, recently wrote a book called &qu=t;Why Information Grows". h=tp://www.amazon.com/Why-Information-Grows-Evolution-Economies/dp/046504899= <http://www.amazon.com/W=y-Information-Grows-Evolution-Economies/dp/0465048994>

## >>

» I haven't read it yet, but I've had some conversat=ons with him. He's trying to approach it from a physics

perspectiv= and agues that life is "information" and "order&q=ot;. Not sure this is right.

>>

## >> (cont.)

» "What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occur=ed in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have f=cused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according =o MIT's antidisciplinarian Cesar Hidalgo, understanding the natur= of economic growth demands transcending the social sciences and including=the natural sciences of information, networks, and complexity. To understa=d the growth of economies, Hidalgo argues, we first need to understand the=growth of order.

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» At first glance, the universe seems hostile to order. Thermodynami=s dictates that over time, order--or information--will disappear. Whispers=vanish in the wind just like the beauty of swirling cigarette smoke collap=es into disorderly clouds. But thermodynamics also has loopholes that prom=te the growth of information in pockets. Our cities are pockets where info=mation grows, but they are not all the same. For every Silicon Valley, Tok=o, and Paris, there are dozens of places with economies that accomplish li=tle more than pulling rocks off the ground. So, why does the US economy ou=strip Brazil's, and Brazil's that of Chad? Why did the technology =orridor along Boston's Route 128 languish while Silicon Valley blossom=d? In each case, the key is how people, firms, and the networks they form =ake use of information.

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> Seen from Hidalgo's vantage, economies become distributed comp=ters, made of networks of people, and the problem of economic development =ecomes the problem of making these computers more powerful. By uncovering =he mechanisms that enable the growth of information in nature and society,=hy Information Grows lays bear the origins of physical order and economic =rowth. Situated at the nexus of information theory, physics, sociology, an= economics, this book propounds a new theory of how economies can do, not =ust more, but more interesting things."
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>>> On Jun 7, 2015, at 6:51 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:j=evacation@gmail.com> > wrote:
>>>> my age old question . if LIFE i= the answer , what is the question, .......... what set of=problems are living systems solving for?
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## >> (cont.)

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