The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Overthrowing Our Tech Overlords | NOEMA
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Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Clay Shirky • 30 highlights
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All of this amounts to just a more fancy way of demonstrating Roosevelt’s point: Concentrated private power can serve as a threat to the Constitutional design, and the enforcement of the antitrust law can provide a final check on private power. This, by itself, provides an independent rationale for enforcement of the antitrust laws.
Tim Wu • The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
At its inception between the 1960s and 1990s, the internet was imagined as a decentralized, horizontal and open space that would foster freedom and equality. Today, it is a collection of walled gardens, a hierarchical ecosystem ruled by a few gatekeepers who leverage access to data, attention and infrastructural capability to enclose users and comp... See more
Ethan Mollick • Article
As Larry Summers and J. Bradford DeLong would write in August 2001, just a month after the file-sharing service Napster was taken down, ‘the most basic condition for economic efficiency … [is] that price equal marginal cost.’ They went on: ‘with information goods, the social and marginal cost of distribution is close to zero.’ This held true not on
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