Journalist and academic Doc Searls claims in his recent book, The Intention Economy, that we're entering a new phase where consumers will: control the flow and use of personal data, build their own loyalty programmes, dictate their own terms of service, tell whole markets what they want, how they want it, where and when they should be able to get it, and how much it should cost.
It is about the meaning of loyalty and the dictates of conscience versus those of the state.
As in many parts of Montenegro, tribal and clan loyalties outweigh the dictates of the state.
The manager's generosity and loyalty to staff dictate that his key lieutenants, John Carver, Andy Woodman and Steve Stone, say they could not wish for a better boss while players frequently speak highly of him.
The old rules of the game dictating loyalty to the president used to ensure party discipline, at best, and a unified front among the complicitous, at worst.
To the former agent and plenty of other observers, it seems like raw political calculation and loyalty to Trump is dictating Nunes's behavior.
Whether one inherits or marries crime, the culture of delinquency dictates that loyalty, secrecy, and allegiance are of the utmost importance.
Those offers that companies give to buyers who are casual visitors mean that even though a loyalty card should not dictate where you spend your cash it's worth having one if you want to take advantage of exclusive deals.
He is from Scotland, so blood and loyalty, perhaps even the wishes of the queen, dictate that Murray be rooted home.
French republicanism dictates that being French rules out other loyalties, and thus other competing identities.
