Just keep paying us, bro
In web2, basically anyone who posts any form of content surrenders it to a continuous feedback loop wherein the platform not only owns and controls your data—it also earns a vast majority of the revenue from what you’ve created.
Eileen Isagon Skyers • Dirt: Are we post-platform?
But every modern business model is depending on the same old industrial age premise of making money by getting rid of people, or at least people with skills. That’s what the assembly line was for: get rid of skilled craftspeople, and create a factory system where unskilled, low-paid workers can be trained in minutes and replaced just as fast if the... See more
Douglas Rushkoff • Artificial Creativity
You’ll be paid in the future based on how well you work with robots.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
“The notion that you’re going to pay some subscription fee and then you’ll feature more prominently in the algorithm — there’s a name for that: It’s advertising,” said Jason Goldman, a former VP of product at Twitter from 2007 to 2010. “It’s just a different way of pricing it.”
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