classic example is Google's AdWords, which is now a multi-billion dollar business within Google. A key to its scalability is self-provisioning — that… - Salim Ismail

Nation states are an artifact of a scarcity environment. Nation states can not compute abundance, they can not operate in that paradigm.

An Exponential Organization is one whose impact (or output) is disproportionally large — at least 10x larger — compared to its peers because of the use of new organizational techniques that leverage accelerating technologies.

One exemplar of that pending disruption is teenager Jack Andraka, who at the age of fourteen single-handedly developed an early-stage detection test for pancreatic cancer that costs just three cents. His approach (awaiting peer review) is 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and 126 times faster than today's diagnostics. Big Pharma has no idea how to deal with Jack, who is one of many wunderkinds emerging globally, all of them with the potential to disrupt great companies and long-established industries. The Jacks of the world bring exponential