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Name: Move Fast and Break Things
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Author: Jonathan Taplin

Jonathan Taplin

How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

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What’s in it for me? Take a walk down the dark side of Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley is often hailed as a cradle of modern innovation, a place where anyone with a great idea can not only disrupt whole industries and make a fortune, but help make the world a better place. But is that an accurate picture? Stories of privacy invading, data hoarding and increasing profits of media companies, while artists and producers struggle to get by, tarnish the picture.

According to author Jonathan Taplin, if we’re to continue thriving, we need to heed the warnings and take a step back from allowing giant monopolies to be the gatekeepers of our information. The healthier thing to do for our society would be to respect the artists, and not treat their work as something disposable to enjoy free of charge.

So let’s take a look behind the curtain of Silicon Valley and find out what’s really going on.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

which government-funded programs laid the groundwork for the internet;
why Google is in favor of online piracy; and
how a group of photographers may have a winning distribution model.

Some of our biggest technological advances were supported by the government.

What is it that brings technology and innovation to the world? Is it always some smart, creative and profit-seeking entrepreneur toiling away in their garage?

Sometimes it’s government funding and the public sector that comes up with innovation.

Take the internet, for example; the technology that brought this indispensable tool to life was created in 1968 by an American engineer named Doug Engelbart. That year, Engelbart unveiled his NLS system – or “oN-Line System” – which incorporated windows, graphics, video conferencing, the mouse, word processing, and a collaborative real-time editor.

But Engelbart didn’t do this all on his own. He was funded by DARPA, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, which was established in the US to develop innovative projects with the potential for future military use.

Engelbart’s NLS became the foundation for ARPANET – the very first online network for sending and receiving data – making it an early version of the internet. ARPANET was also the first to use the TCP/IP protocol suite, also created thanks to DARPA funding. TCP/IP is still used today as the standard template for packaging and sending data, enabling all connected computers on a network to understand one another.

A lot of the foundational technology we use today wasn’t motivated by profit, but rather through government-sponsored incentives, with Bell Labs being another example of this.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, many communications companies were competing for business with their own systems, leading to an unruly, tangled mess of cables strung along the streets of many US cities.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allowed Bell System and Western Union to consolidate and absorb the smaller companies into one unified system. The FCC had one important stipulation: communication rates would be regulated, and a certain amount of profits had to be spent on research and innovation that would benefit society.

In 1925 Bell Labs was founded with the express intent of developing that innovation. It went on to invent the transistor, the microchip, cell telephones and countless other technologies we use everyday, thanks to government programs made possible by tax dollars.

So how did we come to believe that it’s the free market and the profit-driven tech industry that’s good for innovation, while governments are considered an intrusive force that’s bad for business? Let’s find out...

Libertarian leaders have been taking over the tech world while dodging taxes.

The idea of a big bad government can be traced in part to a generation of libertarians born in the US in the 1980s. Many of them were inspired by the works of novelist Ayn Rand and the economic philosophy of Milton Friedman. As such, they were committed to opposing government regulations and taxation, under Rand’s premise that selfishness and a survival of the fittest ethos are beneficial for society.

One of the most significant guiding forces for libertarianism in the tech world is Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal.

Monopolies have long been a concern, and continue to threaten healthy competition.

Today, Google has an 88 percent market share on all searches and advertising, while Facebook has a 77 percent share of social media. Why aren’t there rules against such monopolizing? To answer this, we need to go all the way back to the founding fathers.

While a visiting dignitary in Europe, Thomas Jefferson got a first-hand account of how much damage a monopoly can cause by witnessing the terrible effect the East India Trading Company had on Britain.

Huge tech firms use their market dominance to influence politics in their favor.

As of 2017, the 62 richest people on the Forbes Top 400 list have as much wealth as the poorest 50 percent of the world’s population. It’s also worth noting that eight of the top ten wealthiest people made their money from technology.

One way of making money on the internet is by charging rent.

Piracy is big business that steals from artists and creators.

In 2005, an enterprising man named Kim Dotcom launched Megaupload; a website that allowed anyone to upload a movie or music file while giving bonuses to those who uploaded large numbers of files.

In just two years, Dotcom’s service collected around 12 billion unique files, earning over $174 million in revenue. Megaupload users accounted for 4 percent of global internet traffic due primarily to the sharing of pirated content.

Free services often invade a user’s privacy in the unscrupulous hunt for data.

There’s a new saying in today’s connected world: If you’re not the customer, you’re the product. It‘s a phrase that suggests no part of the internet isn’t doing some sort of business. That business often involves the collection of data, and it’s companies like Google and Facebook that are at the forefront of this data-harvesting.

A lot of people still see Google as a friendly company offering a free service to help them find what they’re looking for. But the reality is that every time you use Google, they’re collecting as much data from you as they can, which they in turn sell to someone else.

Art and community are crucial to creating a better future for everyone.

Is it possible to have an open internet without massive, invasive and corrupting tech corporations? Can we stop the giants? The answer is: Yes we can.

But first we need to cooperate – after all, cooperation has been at the heart of humanity’s success so far, and it can continue to help us now.

If artists unite to control their own content, it could be enough to push back against the tech giants.

Although the internet has proven less than helpful to many of the artists who find their work being illegally distributed, it may also be the platform that allows them to take back control of their futures.

In recent years streaming services like Netflix and Spotify have become increasingly popular, though they’ve been quite bad at generating income for artists. But there may be a way for artists to band together to fix this.

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Move Fast and Break Things (2017) takes a look at the grim reality of how giant tech companies are harming society in ways both big and small. By dodging taxes, they’re keeping money from government programs that have been behind some of our greatest innovations, and in their desperate hunt for data and profits, they’re invading our privacy while fleecing the creators of art and high-quality entertainment. Author Jonathan Taplin offers some light at the end of this dark tunnel, suggesting there may be better ways of negotiating with this technology.

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A capitalism shaped by the few and unaccountable to the many is a threat to all. - Barack Obama

—Jonathan Taplin

Wer Move Fast and Break Things lesen sollte

Anyone concerned about the ethics of modern technology
Creative types interested in the economics of art
Socially conscious artists interested in alternative distribution methods

Über den Autor

Jonathan Taplin is an American writer and film producer. Since 2004 he’s been a teacher at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. He began his career as a concert producer for legendary musicians such as Bob Dylan and The Band, which led to producing movies such as Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets. He is also the author of the 2010 book Outlaw Blues: Adventures in the Counter-Culture Wars.

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