Wu, Tim <br/><br/>
The Age of Extraction :  How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity / 
Tim Wu. 
 - First edition. 
 - viii, 206 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780593321249 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2024060501 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Multi-sided platform businesses<br/>Artificial intelligence--Economic aspects<br/>Technological innovations--Moral and ethical aspects<br/>Technological unemployment
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD9999.M782  / .W82 2025 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.7