Resources for Modern Enterprise

For thousands of years, value was created through subsistence. People produced what they needed to survive, and little more. That was the human story until the control of land and labor changed it. Then trade and merchants grew; empires rose on coins. Then came the 1700s. Steam, steel, oil, and cars. Then electricity and mass production. Wealth exploded through mass production. Then information and networks. Every time the source of value changed, the world followed. Work, cities, and power all adjusted. It felt chaotic at the time; it seems inevitable today.