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headed by charismatic visionaries who see technology not just as a global business opportunity but also as a potentially revolutionary force in human affairs. In contrast to the other two groups, this camp centers more on the personalities and ambitions of technology CEOs rather than the operations of the companies themselves.
The Technopolar Moment
foreignaffairs.com
I have to think the population of people for whom $15 is too pricey but $8 is just right is pretty small. Getting people to pay for digital content is hard, but the big challenge is getting someone from $0 to $0.01 — the act of commitment to payment.
Can’t afford $40/month? The Financial Times wants to tempt you with a subset of its stories at a fraction of the price
Joshua Benton
__The internet, in this perspective, can be said to materialize the virtuality of the media’s publics.__ By constituting a contingent and evolving configuration of routes through which digital texts (such as online news articles) may address themselves to readers, internet technologies give material form to the fact that a news article’s public is never a predetermined group but an always open-ended entity that will come into existence wherever the article is (clicked on and) read.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
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