Andrew D'Cruz

If the future is not in people setting up their own sites, but in people putting things on different sites and letting it all spread out across social graphs, then it’s going to be a pretty amateurish future. (Obviously this may not be the actual future; the actual future may involve us desperately trying t…

…at connects hosts who have accommodations to rent with guests seeking to rent such accommodations.” Of course, platforms are not neutral pieces of technology: they are embedded with the values of the marketplace, strategically designed for maximum profit and…

asually…omedians do. People who understand the power of something are anxious about how that power is used. Adults scream if they see a toddler holding a loaded gun, because they know what guns can do. The toddler just waves it around freely, and cries if someone tries to take it away from him. He doesn’t know about its power, and he’s not scared of its danger; that’s why he can play with it so casually, when adults are scared to touch it. To him, it’s just another toy.