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Whiplash
Joi Ito and Jeff Howe
3.82 (1409 Reviews)
Technology
Business
Entrepreneurship
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Overview of Whiplash

In "Whiplash," MIT Media Lab's Joi Ito offers nine radical principles for navigating our accelerating future. Walter Isaacson calls it "brilliant" - a guide where emergence trumps authority and resilience beats strength. How will you adapt when maps become obsolete but compasses remain essential?

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When the Future Arrives Before We're Ready

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A basement cafe in Paris, December 1895. Fifty seconds of flickering images-women in motion-sparked such chaos that police had to control the crowds. Yet the Lumiere brothers, the visionaries behind this sensation, abandoned filmmaking within five years, declaring cinema had "no future." Fast forward to 2007: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laughs off the iPhone, insisting it has "no chance" of gaining significant market share. These aren't isolated blunders-they're symptoms of a deeper truth. We're living through an age where change moves so fast that even brilliant minds can't keep pace. The world is experiencing centuries of progress compressed into decades, and the old rules for navigating it have become dangerously obsolete. What worked yesterday won't work tomorrow, and what seems impossible today might be mundane by next week. For most of human history, power was balanced. Governments checked governments. Corporations competed with equally sized rivals. Capital pushed against labor. Then, almost overnight, this symmetry shattered. A single unemployed trader with a clever algorithm erased nearly $1 trillion from the U.S. securities market in 2010. Craig Newmark, working essentially alone, devastated the newspaper industry with Craigslist. Terrorist cells challenge superpowers. Individual hackers breach government fortresses. The equation has fundamentally changed: small players now create impacts wildly disproportionate to their size, while the biggest threats to established systems come from the smallest actors-startups, rogues, indie labs. This isn't just about technology disrupting business. It's about complexity itself reaching unprecedented levels. Think of the economy: billions of people making simple decisions-buy, sell, hold-that somehow self-organize into market behaviors no single person could orchestrate. Or consider your immune system, ant colonies, Earth's climate-all complex systems that have existed for eons. But we've recently "cranked the volume to 11" on every input that drives complexity: heterogeneity, networks, interdependency, adaptation. The result? A world so interconnected and volatile that even experts consistently fail to predict what happens next.

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The Wisdom of Crowds and the Power of Networks

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Direction Over Detailed Plans and the Art of Adaptation

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When Playing It Safe Becomes the Riskiest Move

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Breaking Rules to Make Breakthroughs

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Why Your Team Needs More Misfits

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Solving Problems by Seeing the Whole Picture

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