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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

Both Sides of the Table

The premise is that with the rise of Facebook on the Internet & Apple “Apps&# on mobile, the Internet is becoming more closed. The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. +

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google.

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