A close look at what the business model of free digital services actually extracts, from whom, and what the downstream consequences have been.
Topic
technology
2 articles across all sections
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The Attention Economy's Bargain, and Who Is Paying for It -
The Infrastructure Nobody Talks About: How the Internet Actually Stays On Beneath the platforms and apps that dominate public discussion sits a layer of physical and institutional infrastructure that is aging, concentrated, and poorly understood.