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Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
This combines with Mazzucato’s analysis in a way that could permit a left that re-embraced modernism to deliver a pretty good solution to the problem of the innovation desert. But the crucial thing here is not just—or not even—the cuts in public spending on research and development, or the reduced proportion of spending on pure research compared to
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Drew Austin • #184: Pure Pain Sugar
Anthony Williams • Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

Ben Tarnoff • Internet for the People
The reduction of reality to information and humans to genotypes all-too-conveniently dovetails with capitalism’s imperative to render everything into a suitable form for the marketplace. Everything is data, and everything has a price, and everything can scale.
Douglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
The Faustian bargain of the digital age—free or cheap digital conveniences in exchange for our data—was only ever explained to us after it was already a done deal. And it represents an enormous and radical shift not only in how we live but also, far more importantly, in what our lives are for. We are all mine sites now, data mine sites, and despite
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