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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
amazon.com
At its inception between the 1960s and 1990s, the internet was imagined as a decentralized, horizontal and open space that would foster freedom and equality. Today, it is a collection of walled gardens, a hierarchical ecosystem ruled by a few gatekeepers who leverage access to data, attention and infrastructural capability to enclose users and... See more
Ethan Mollick • Article
The finite resources in this world — natural, land, people’s time — are all managed through one system, and this system is currently over-indexed on encouraging corporations to pursue profit at the expense of societal welfare.
Wendy Liu • Abolish Silicon Valley
Fuller is something of a philosopher of digital design; his podcast “Scratching the Surface” canvasses experts in the field. In the past decade, he argues, a “user-centered” approach to design has been replaced by what he has taken to calling a “corporation-centered” approach. Rather than optimizing for the user’s experience, it optimizes for the... See more
Kyle Chayka • Why I Finally Quit Spotify | the New Yorker
The potential for exploitation of creative content and ideas by corporate overreach is a significant concern.