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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Algorithms for search, recommendations, social media feeds, entertainment, and news became the foundation of an enormous new economy. The internet giants succeeded by doing what they are now too often reviled for: extracting signal from massive amounts of data. Attention allocation was outsourced to the machines.