02577cam a22004338i 4500 793 MYCC 20260717103701.0 t| 250327s2025 nyu b 001 0 eng 2024060501 9780593321249 hardcover 24128916 (DLC)24128916 DLC eng rda DLC DLC DLC-MRC DLC MYCC pcc HD9999.M782 .W82 2025 338.7 23 Wu, Tim author aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005069944 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2005069944 The Age of Extraction : How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity / Tim Wu. First edition. 2511 New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2025] ©2025 viii, 206 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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. Multi-sided platform businesses Artificial intelligence Economic aspects Technological innovations Moral and ethical aspects Technological unemployment 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 MYCCLIB MYCCLIB GEN 2026-07-17 2 2 338.7 WU 2025 11278 2026-09-29 2026-09-15 16:50:42 2026-09-15 2026-07-17 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 MYCCLIB MYCCLIB REF 2026-07-17 0 338.7 WU 2025 REF 11279 2026-07-17 10:37:49 2026-07-17 REF 793 793