Over 20 years ago I wrote a book where I argued new information technologies might bring about a quantitive change (things done quicker) but changed little qualitatively about society; the new information economy was still capitalism.

Little (apart from relatively marginal things like Mastodon) has changed that argument.

Despite the promises of the internet utopians, we live in an information capitalism that often feels like a C19th economic system....

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