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Ali makes the case for a new Internet architecture and then declares that, in prototype, it has already been in place for three years, requiring only 44,344 lines of Python software language code. Google’s famously elegant Chrome browser, by comparison, took up 4,490,488 lines
George Gilder • Life After Google
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Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
But increasing freedom to participate in the public conversation has compensating values.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
who has access to and control over the legal code and its masters:
Katharina Pistor • The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
Perhaps one way to motivate and encourage regulators and enforcers everywhere is to explain that the subterranean architecture of the internet has become a shadowland where evolution has all but stopped. Regulators’ efforts to make the visible internet competitive will achieve little unless they also tackle the devastation that lies beneath.
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
This time is different: with everything on one network, the potential power to control is so much greater.
Tim Wu • The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Vintage)
“If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we’d not only have fewer parking tickets, we’d also have much less driving.
Lawrence Lessig • Free Culture | LESSIG
When we embrace theories of change that disproportionately favor those positioned to move levers of norms, markets, and code, we need to acknowledge these pitfalls.