Computers and the Internet are everywhere and the world is increasingly made of them.Cory Doctorow

The future is already here—

it’s just not very evenly distributed.

Companies with valuations based largely on your data

• Acxiom ($1.3B)
• Uber ($41B)
• Palantir Technologies ($10B)
• Yelp ($1.47B)
• Facebook ($255B)
• Google ($403B)

I mean, it's not like we could just demand to see the code that's governing our lives. What right do we have to poke around in Facebook's private affairs like that?

walled gardens are winning
because they have a superior
user experience Dries Buytaert

As value shifts from software to the ability to leverage data, companies will have to rethink their businesses, just as Netflix and Google did. Dries Buytaert

1. Share data
2. ???
3. Profit

• We are the network. We effect (create, cause, bring into being) the value.
• Open platforms have disadvantages to closed: in making up-front investment (one entity controlling a platform can capture the value more easily), can be easier to make a good user experience
• Open platforms have advantages over closed: more companies can try their ideas, more different needs can be served (long tail).

Distributed data and processing