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How the blockchain will break up Big Tech
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How the blockchain will break up Big Tech

The Big Tech trust-busting conversation has a shelf-life.

Jon Stokes
Jon Stokes, 2021
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Tech blogger and anti-monopolist Jon Stokes has spent a lot of time thinking about trust-busting big tech. Large corporations controlling application programming interfaces (APIs) with users tables leverage their scope and power, making competition from smaller companies virtually impossible. But the blockchain is poised to end all that, with a massive users table that will encompass the entire internet. Stokes explains how the power struggle over proprietary user data will soon shift from the corporate silo back to the user. Trust-busting will no longer be relevant in the big tech universe.

Take-Aways

  • Users tables hold valuable user data that essentially run the whole online attention economy.
  • “Leverage/risk dynamics” are the hidden factor that constitutes the internet.
  • The blockchain disrupts the network by introducing a public users table at internet scale.

About the Author

Jon Stokes created Doxa on Substack in 2020. He is the co-founder of Ars Technica, which was bought by Condé Nast in 2008. He has worked for Wired Digital as cloud editor and as deputy editor for The Prepared magazine.

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