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Benkler, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks:

Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From

Eric Von Hippel’s

Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)

This search engine transformed the way people worked, entertained themselves, and learned.

Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

Neither of these can be sustainable in the longer-term, and blockchain-based technologies may help shift the balance of power to a model of enhanced copyright protection and fair revenue-based models based on new distribution structures.

Tim Lea • Blockchain: Down The Rabbit Hole: (Discover The Power Of The Blockchain)

The second type of reforms, which I call dignitarian, take a further step beyond asserting rights to data-as-property, and resist data’s commodification altogether, drawing on a framework of civil and human rights to advocate for increased protections. Proposed reforms along these lines grant individuals meaningful capacity to say no to forms of da... See more

Salomé Viljoen • Data as Property? | Phenomenal World

We need to manage these emerging inventions to prevent actual (versus hypothetical) harms, both by legal and technological means.

Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

In the aftermath of the 2016 Presidential election, these attitudes radically shifted. For different reasons, both sides of the political spectrum began to immensely distrust the platform monopolies. The algorithmically curated streams that had once seemed so futuristic suddenly became Orwellian. Today, it’s not only acceptable to move more of your... See more

Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class

The second principle that would protect democracy against the rise of totalitarian surveillance regimes is decentralization. A democratic society should never allow all its information to be concentrated in one place, no matter whether that hub is the government or a private corporation. It

Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Second, we should create a legal regime that can make our data’s collective value something we can bargain over as a group.