The information economy that we are currently building doesn?t really embrace capitalism, but rather a new form of feudalism. Without the public road, and utterly unencumbered access to it, a child?s lemonade stand would never turn a profit. The real business opportunity would be in privatizing other people?s roads. Similarly, without an open, unified network, the whole notion of business online would have been entirely feudal from the start. Instead, it only took a feudal turn around the turn of the century. These days, instead of websites on the open internet, people are more likely to create apps in proprietary stores or profiles on proprietary social media sites.
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