Patterns Then Packages It Up and Sells It to Advertisers. What Does Google Give Back in Return Web Services. Is It a Fair Exchange of Value Lanier Argues It Isnt. Whats More Its an Exchange of Value So Onesided That Its Likely to Destroy the Very Ecosystem on Which Companies Like Google Are Based the Work Output and the Spending Choices of the Middle Class. If Few of the People Who Publish Can Make a Reasonable Living Doing So Then the Quality of What Gets Published Must Decrease or Cease to Exist. People Could Make Their Money in Other Ways Including Offline. However Consider That the Web is Affecting a Lot of.
Offline Business Already. The Music Industry is a Faint Shadow of What It Once . There Are a Lot Fewer Middle Class Careers in the Music Industry Now. Small Retailers Are Losing Out to the Web. Fewer Jobs There. The News Industry is Barely Making Any Money. Same Goes for Book Italy Telegram Number Data Publishers. All These Industries Are Struggling as Online Aggregators Carve Up Their Value Chains. Now Factor in All the Support Industries of These Verticals. Then Think About All the Industries Likely to Be Affected in the Near Future Like Health or Libraries or Education for Example. Many Businesses That Used to Hire.
Predominantly Middle Class People Are Going Out of Business Downsizing Their Operations or Soon to Have Chunks of Their Value Displaced. Its Not Googles Aim to Gut the Middle Class of Course. This Post is Not an Antigoogle Rant Either Simply a Look at Action and Consequence. What is the Effect of Technology and in Particular the Effect of Big Technology Companies on the Web Most of Whom Seem Obsessed With Keeping You in Their Private Proprietary Environments for as Long as Possible Googles Aim is Index All the Worlds Information and Make It Available. Thats a Good Aim. Its a Useful Free Service. But Lanier Argues That Gutting.