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The Internet of free platforms, free services, and free content is wholly subsidized by targeted advertising, the efficacy (and thus profitability) of which relies on collecting and mining user data.
Eric Siegel • Predictive Analytics
Or, as Robert Pitofsky put it, we should always be concerned that “excessive concentration of economic power will breed antidemocratic political pressures.”
Tim Wu • The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
At the close of the twentieth century it appeared that the great ideological battles between fascism, communism, and liberalism had resulted in the overwhelming victory of liberalism. Democratic politics, human rights, and free-market capitalism seemed destined to conquer the entire world. But as usual, history took an unexpected turn, and after fa
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Scott Kominers • A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy
Second, the Silicon Curtain might come to divide not one group of humans from another but rather all humans from our new AI overlords.
Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
A third democratic principle is mutuality. If democracies increase surveillance of individuals, they must simultaneously increase surveillance of governments and corporations too.
Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
The soaring fortunes of those at the very top may ultimately represent a threat to democratic governance.
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
the people around me are flooded by even more data.