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Under the act, telecommunications companies were required to operate as “common carriers,” a legal term borrowed from the transportation business. Early in the industrial age, countries recognized that shipping firms were economic linchpins—many other businesses depended on their services—and as a result wielded enormous power over commerce and tra
... See moreNicholas Carr • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
Why was this type of network more valuable than the other ones mentioned above? There are at least three reasons:- There are global network effects to the telephone- The marginal cost of servicing a phone call is zero- In communications, subnetworks form within the overarching network
Uncharted Territories • Platforms and Aggregators
For years after the price of long-distance phone calls collapsed in the United States, my older relatives would still announce that a call was “long distance.” Such calls had previously been special, because they were expensive; it took people years to understand that cheap long-distance calls removed the rationale for regarding them as inherently ... See more
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Once you had to buy an answering machine. Now you can subscribe to an answering service. That’s the essence of virtualization.