Eric Gardner
My business card says consultant. I help businesses and governments innovate. I also write words that combine history, policy and economics.
Similarly, it’s easiest to understand Uber as a machine for converting publicly-planned metropolitan transportation networks into privately-controlled automated dispatch systems; the fact that an app is used to achieve that transition is almost incidental to the overarching goal of owning a market.
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Anil Dash
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If this idea interests you, I’d recommend reading Two Questions Every City Must Ask In The Age Of Autonomous Taxis. The article asks similar questions around the privatization of our public transportation networks — specifically, what to do about the data generated.
