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George Gilder • George Gilder on knowledge, power, and the economy
As technology revolutionizes the tools we use, it also antiquates our laws, reshapes our morals, and alters our perceptions.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Not only was a new science born but also a new economy, based on a new system of the world—the information theory articulated in 1948 by Shannon on the foundations first launched in a room in Königsberg in September 1930. This new system of the world was consummated by the company we know as Google.
George Gilder • Life After Google
the tech companies that greenlight transactions, communications, and online behavior have in many ways become the de facto privatized governments of the Western world.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Beyond international affairs, the theory of American exceptionalism also has implications for a political theory of networks. In contrast to Lovink, we maintain that in recent decades the processes of globalization have mutated from a system of control housed in a relatively small number of power hubs to a system of control infused into the materia
... See moreAlexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
Le 21 mars 1994, lors de l’inauguration de la première conférence mondiale des télécommunications à Buenos Aires, le vice-président des États-Unis, Al Gore, s’enthousiasmait de l’incroyable potentiel des « autoroutes de l’information », ces réseaux mondiaux de câbles qui s’apprêtaient à relier la terre entière à l’Internet naissant. À ses yeux, cel
... See moreStéphane Loignon • Big Bang Blockchain. La seconde révolution d'internet (ACTUALITE SOCIETE) (French Edition)
Technology democratizes consumption but consolidates production. The best person in the world at anything gets to do it for everyone.