News Summary

• Bob Greene: For most of history, men operated tools.
• Then they operated machines.
• Now you state the outcome.
• An economy of machines figures out the how.
• Greene: Every spoken objective becomes a request for bids.
• Agents negotiate with other agents -- merchants, logistics, hotels, doctors, insurers, energy, robot fleets, capital markets.
• The same sentence starts a market when you say you’re out of toothpaste, the truck needs a wash, Mom’s shoulder is acting up, dinner for six at seven, or you want four warm days somewhere that isn’t a California August.