Cloud Empires by Vili Lehdonvirta (.ePUB)+
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Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control (The MIT Press) by Vili Lehdonvirta
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Overview: The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of entrepreneurs, users, and workers.
The early Internet was a lawless place, populated by scam artists who made buying or selling anything online risky business. Then Amazon, eBay, Upwork, and Apple established secure digital platforms for selling physical goods, crowdsourcing labor, and downloading apps. These tech giants have gone on to rule the Internet like autocrats. How did this happen? How did users and workers become the hapless subjects of online economic empires? The Internet was supposed to liberate us from powerful institutions. In Cloud Empires, digital economy expert Vili Lehdonvirta explores the rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over our lives and proposes a new way forward.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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