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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. economy/archives/82578.

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