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It doesn’t mean that governments have no role to play—quite the contrary. But my overall impression is that we’ve witnessed a sharp reversal in who has the capacity to explore, discover, and deliver. In the past, only governments could break the constraints and pull it off at a large scale. Now it looks like governments (at least in the West) are s

Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age

On Technology

Sriya Sridhar • 4 cards

If professional editors serve as gatekeepers, determining the importance of various stories before publication, the Internet opens the gates, deciding on the significance of content after it’s published. Hence, it’s not just a collective editor—it’s what I call the Viral Editor. Anyone can post anything, including rubbish. But people then vote with... See more

Andrey Mir • The Viral Inquisitor

Making tech human

Max Beauroyre • 3 cards

Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519

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faster churning of companies in and out of the S&P 500, the death of news and the newspaper, the failure of established

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

I will argue that the constraints on governance in online spaces have contributed to the peril of democratic politics in general. It is not enough to merely defend existing governmental institutions; healthy democracy depends on enabling creative new forms of self-governance, especially on networks.

Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life

While the notional shift from programming to curation can feel academic, it represents a crucial step in the democratization of media. Through thousands of individual curators, each of us will be able to escape the tyranny of averages and the limitations of algorithmic recommendations, as well as benefit from the ability to become tastemakers ourse... See more

Tal Shachar • REDEF ORIGINAL: Age of Abundance: How the Content Explosion will Invert the Media Industry

But today things are different. One path to reinventing government through a more entrepreneurial approach has been brought forward by Tim O’Reilly, who coined the notion of “government as a platform”[401]. The vision is inspired by the strategy of the most successful tech companies. The likes of Amazon, Facebook, and Apple do not only operate appl