Sam is a re-imagining of how value flows through the economy, and the potential is mind-boggling.

Sam takes data sharing and keeps humans at the center. Each member in Sam defines who has access to their data. You get to turn that access on, or off or on-a-little-bit however you like. That's what makes the data-based, value-streams valuable: you can turn them off. However, the power in Sam is that your data can also be turned on in a way that the value flows back to you and not off to a tech giant. Now everyone wants to create, wants to share, wants to earn.
Because Sam manages trading of data access - and not ownership - there's no congestion in value creation. Unlike a spare seat in your car, with Sam you can rent data access out to 10,000 people simultaneously. Sam also keeps track of who's doing what, so if someone builds a product from your data then you get royalties. If someone builds a service from that product, then you get royalties again. It's like 10,000 people in your passenger seat and they're happy to keep paying even after you've dropped them off.

The best bit about Sam though is that it's like the real world. Everybody specializes and collaborates for their own sake. No one borrows value or hides behind proprietary communities. Data Banks serve their customers the best data security and provenance they can - because they want more customers. Data Retailers enrich data in competition with all the other data retailers. In time, even other assistants will be able to connect Sam's data sharing markets, because Sam is about sharing data to create value.

Imagine a global economy that runs on data. That's Sam World.