The Age of Extraction : How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity / Tim Wu.
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TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2025]Copyright date: ©2025Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 206 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
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- 9780593321249
- 338.7 23
- HD9999.M782 .W82 2025
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part I: Understanding Platform Power -- The Genius of the Ancient City Square -- Platformization -- The Golden Age of Tech Optimism -- From Enablement to Extraction-the Story of the Amazon Marketplace -- Scale as a Weapon -- The Great Harvest -- Part II: The Business of Herding -- A Long Slow Bet on Laziness -- Big data, knowing the future & controlling the future -- Artificial Intelligence and the Calculus of Human Dependence -- Platform Power Beyond Tech -- Part III: The Dangers of Centralized Economic Power -- The Risks of Centralized Economic Power -- Economic mania -- Some Solutions -- The Persistent Dream of the Self-Correcting Economy -- Artificail Intelligence and Crypto: Technological Answers to Economic Inequality -- Mere Redistribution -- Part IV: An Architecture of Equality -- Platforms and the Architecture of Equality -- Epilogue.
"A concise yet century-spanning exploration of the power of platforms, what the future of capitalism will look like, and how to build economies that provide equality and lasting prosperity"-- Provided by publisher.
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