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Andreessen’s counterargument is that Dorsey is a hippie moron. No techno utopia is coming. The blockchain is nothing more than a new technology, and technology makes the world better in small ways that add up to big advances for everyone.
The Information • Jack Dorsey, Marc Andreessen and the Makings of a Crypto Holy War
The economics of the internet created a twisted set of incentives that make traffic more important—and more profitable—than the truth. With the mass media—and today, mass culture—relying on the web for the next big thing, it is a set of incentives with massive implications.
Ryan Holiday • Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
But this era is over. Now consumers have coalesced into the powerful multitude. Their empowerment can more and more be seen as a threat for society. Just like Walmart, tech companies such as Amazon and many others prove that in the Entrepreneurial Age, a multitude hungry for quality at scale beats workers and society most of the time, inflicting a
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Joe examines many problems with the internet giants of today (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Netflix) and how they take advantage of the individuals who use their platforms, stating, “By addicting us to their systems they keep us sellable.” He continues to describe the misalignment of incentives which has resulted in humans becoming the product as... See more
Joseph Lubin • Blockchain Explained: How Web 3.0 Will Create New Business Models
Second Machine Age, written by the MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
As long as the assumed purpose of media is to allow ordinary people to consume professionally created material, the proliferation of amateur-created stuff will seem incomprehensible.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
But this is less of a systemic problem than in the past, because the web has massively eroded the power of gatekeepers to suppress and control speech. I was among the first to recognize this potential for individual freedom of speech, and helped pioneer individual online media, specifically blogging, 20 years ago.