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Today’s dominant internet platforms are built on aggregating users and user data. As these platforms have grown, so has their ability to provide value — thanks to the power of network effects — which has enabled them to stay ahead.
Scott Kominers • Why Build in Web3
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Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
In a world transformed by the widespread use of networked technologies, humanity faces a significant divide between those who can access and use new technologies and those who cannot, counterbalancing the considerable opportunities that are being created in new economic sectors.
L'Atelier • Economic opportunities for our avatars | Social Mobility in the Digital Age | L'Atelier
What the technologists working at the very heart of the world’s biggest tech companies realize, however, is just how disempowering such individuation can be.
Douglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
As Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian note in Information Rules, information is costly to produce but cheap to reproduce.
Eric Schmidt • How Google Works
Many of your everyday clicks contribute to the web’s constant testing of how to improve overall persuasiveness.
Eric Siegel • Predictive Analytics
These are users of existing products and services who come to find them deficient and start not only envisioning improvements, but building and using them. Von
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
Technology is on the cusp of enabling us to keep track of every person's economic contribution at a granular level and of compensating each person for that contribution and all instances at which it ends up being useful.
Dror Poleg • NFTs and the Future of Work
Incomplete contracting and residual rights of control will probably always necessitate the existence of companies.