Markets
Notes about economics of the tech sector: big tech platforms, competition, business models, trends, and the market forces shaping the digital economy.
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Zoom and Theoretical Privacy
The mainstream adoption of video conferencing technologies suggests a theoretical privacy crisis.
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On the Folly of SEO
In writing to be found, are we losing the things that make our writing worth finding?
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Revisiting the Nature of Regulation
Regulations are the product of negotiations and agreements. (Guest note by Dr. Sharon Yadin)
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Altman’s Moat
When Sam Altman calls for regulating AI, he is trying to build a regulatory moat, greatly raising the barriers to entry to the AI market.
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Decoding Disruption
Disruption is the misguided notion, in my view, that for the new to grow, the old must die.
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Looming Dusk
Part 7/7: The bleak technological future of humanity.
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Broken Dreams
Part 6/7: How the hopes for world peace were lost.
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Filtered Information
Part 5/7: The unfulfilled promise of a free, equal and prosperous information society through the decentralization of social power.
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Tech Oligarchs
Part 4/7: The rise of Silicon Sultans, the information age reincarnation of the robber barons of the Industrial Revolution.
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Giants Rise
Part 3/7: The shift from ideological cyber-utopianism to big-tech corporate market dominance.
