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Convenience, Control, and Contempt: Uber (part two)

It long ago became an agreed upon standard of liberal capitalist democracy that a monopoly was a bad thing. This [...]
By David A. J. Reynolds | August 24, 2016 | Automation, Economics, Employment, Ethics, Law, Transportation | Branding, Consumer Culture, Convenience, Cult Branding, Douglas Rushkoff, Entitlement Consumption, Evgeny Morozov, Monopoly, Peter Thiel, Presentism, Ride Sharing, self-driving cars, Sharing Economy, Taxis, Travis Kalanick, Uber
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Utopia: New and Improved

The most legendary public clash between the Cold War’s competing sides did not delve into philosophical or economic theory; it [...]
By David A. J. Reynolds | May 11, 2016 | Economics, Politics, Prediction, Society, Well-Being | Capitalism, Cold War, Communism, Democracy, Eric Schmidt, Evgeny Morozov, Google, Henri Vogt, Howard Segal, Jared Cohen, Jerzy Szacki, John Lane, Kentaro Toyama, Mor Jokai, Nicholas Negorponte, Nikita Khrushchev, Orville Wright, Peace, Richard Nixon, Soviet Union, Utopianism, Vaclav Havel
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