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2018-06-24

Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay

A proto-metaphor for the emerging system of ‘social credit’ in China? They’re rediscovering, at scale and at great expense to their users, the ways in which a society is more than a bazaar, and the pitfalls of allowing human attention to be sold and resold as a commodity. If a platform is addressing a collective […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Digital Economy, Digital Environment, Digital Governance, Digital Morality, Platform Collectivism, Social Credit, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2018-06-02

Do platforms work?

The distributed network has gobbled the hierarchical firm. Only by seizing the platform can workers avoid digital serfdom Why do corporations exist? These hierarchical, self-contained assemblies of labour, capital and know-how have been with us for so long that by now they seem almost ‘natural’. But apart from what they make or do or sell, […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Blockchain, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, New Business Models, Platform Collectivism, Platforms, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

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