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Competition in the Digital Age

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Posted on November 5, 2015

Twenty Years of the Commercial Internet (Part 2)

How did the deployment and uptake of the Internet bring about growth in the US economy? That is a fundamental economic question that still resonates today, because many of these events yielded lessons that we can take to the present. The topic is hard to address because many participants experienced these events in different ways. …

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Posted on October 25, 2015

"Information Wants to be Free": The history of that quote

Last year Steve Levy wrote "The Definitive Story of Information Wants to be Free." It is an interesting reflection on that phrase and its origins. The exact quote arose in a conversation between Stewart Brand and Steve Wosniak at the first hackers conference in 1984 and was recorded by Levy as this: On the one hand …

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