Gerd Leonhard

“As William Deresiewicz points out in The Death of the Artist, “If you can only sell your product to a single entity, it’s not your customer; it’s your boss.”29”
― Rebecca Giblin, Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

“Not everyone can have Richard Branson’s private island.” VR is the new solution to climate change—or maybe the ultimate surrender to its inevitability. As resources vanish and economic conditions worsen, technological simulations can fill in where real wealth has disappeared. “The promise of VR is to make the world you wanted.”
― Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

“a generic formula: Anglos rule; all natives are Indians; all land and water is just gold waiting to happen. Geopolitics took on the character of the gold rush, as European colonial powers engaged in competitive scrambles for colonial territory in sub-Saharan Africa and”
― Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

“It’s a reprehensible idea that seems, on the surface, virtuous.” “That describes almost everything the Every does.”
― Dave Eggers, The Every