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Digital Commons
Before the internet, most of taxis, deliveries and administrative service revenues stayed local, sustaining the users and owners alike. Today, the small collection of communities where tech expertise is concentrated are increasingly disrupting this balance in their favor. Money inevitably flows out of these capitals, but with AI and robotics automation just on the horizon, might we begin to see even less of the nation’s GDP emerge from sources outside of Silicon Valley?
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A Thousand Red Hats
In 1993, a small company called Red Hat began selling support, documentation, and deployment expertise around Linux — software that anyone could download for free. By 1999, Red Hat's IPO raised $84 million in a single day. The code was free. The market wasn't.This dynamic is about to repeat itself, potentially dozens of times over, thanks to an unusual licensing strategy employed by the Network Theory Applied Research Institute (NTARI).
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Theory of Heuristic Infrastructure
Platform capitalism has demonstrated, at scale, that coordination infrastructure is not culturally neutral. Platforms that have come to mediate enormous proportions of human economic activity have not merely redistributed value — they have reshaped the epistemic habits, relational structures, and cultural expectations of hundreds of millions of people
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