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The Age of Extraction - How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity (Paperback)
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The Age of Extraction - How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity (Paperback)
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List price R380
Loot Price R329
Discovery Miles 3 290
You Save R51 (13%)
To be released on 22 December 2025. You can pre-order this product. We should be able to ship between Tuesday, 30 Dec 2025 and Wednesday, 7 Jan 2026.
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Today’s tech platforms are some of history's most advanced tools for
extracting as much as possible – data, attention, profit-margins – from
everyone else. As they become essential, we are at risk of building an
economy that is perpetually unfair for much of humanity.
Places and spaces where people can exchange information and goods have
been at the heart of every economy and every civilization in history,
but today’s global platforms - as provided by Amazon, Google, Apple,
Meta and others - are different: instead of providing value they
extract it, creating vast disparities in wealth and power between the
haves and have-nots. For the first time in history, we have the ability
to create sustainable prosperity for all, but currently that wealth is
concentrated in a tiny number of hands. It isn't abundance that's the
problem; it is distribution.
In this brilliantly engaging, frequently surprising account, Tim Wu,
one of the world’s foremost experts on anti-monopoly law, draws on
fascinating case studies in the history of technology's explosive rise
to demonstrate emphatically that breaking monopolies will ultimately
unleash creativity and growth - and reduce the vast inequality that
inevitably leads to social upheaval and political chaos. Wu also sets
out an alternative blueprint that preserves the economic flourishing
that platforms catalyze, allowing tech platforms to play a major role
in creating and sustaining an economic model of prosperity not just for
the few but for the many.
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