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We live in a capitalist society, by choice or not, and money is the operating system of that society.

Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success

The limited remit and strength of international governance create severe bounds on the ability to provide transnational public goods through voting and deliberation, but the almighty dollar (and yuan) is respected in most corners of the planet. Capital flows and the technology it is invested in shape lives around the world.

Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

Protocol networks endow users with ownership, which benefits all network participants, including creators, entrepreneurs, developers, and others.

Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

While Gates’s essay is remembered for its prescience about the direction the internet would take, what’s less well-remembered is that he also sounded a warning: “For the internet to thrive, content providers must be paid for their work,” he writes. “The long-term prospects are good, but I expect a lot of disappointment in the short-term.”

Katie Parrott • The Web3 Renaissance: A Golden Age for Content

Wu argues that many see convenience as a form of liberation. People aim for “financial independence” only to realize when they achieve it that they’re only independent in the narrow sense of being able to pay for everything.

Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life

In 2021, when the archive celebrated its 25th anniversary, Mr. Kahle talked about the fate of the internet in an era of megacorporations: “Will this be our medium or will it be theirs? Will it be for a small controlling set of organizations or will it be a common good, a public resource?

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The Gatekeepers of Knowledge Don’t Want Us to See What They Know

Julia Angwin nytimes.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 comp... See more

Ethan Mollick • Article

Likewise in the Entrepreneurial Age, tech companies don’t own the multitude to which their users belong, yet they exploit it as a strategic resource thanks to the superior design of their applications, the regular and systematic monitoring of their users’ activity, and the increasing returns to scale they derive from networks. It’s not about master