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The Age of Extraction How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

Tim Wu

A Our world is dominated by a handful of tech platforms. They provide great conveniences and entertainment, but also stand as some of the most effective instruments of wealth extraction ever invented, seizing immense amounts of money, data, and attention from all of us. An economy driven by digital...

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The Ezra Klein Show

The host highlighted Wu's latest work, noting it examines how tech platforms have become extractive forces that dominate the economy and threaten future prosperity.

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His latest, The Age of Extraction, How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threatened Our Future Prosperity.

— Episode: Everything Wrong With the Internet and H...

Episode: Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix...

The host highlighted Wu's latest work, noting it examines how tech platforms have become extractive forces that dominate the economy and threaten future prosperity.

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His latest, The Age of Extraction, How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threatened Our Future Prosperity.

Tim, one of the core tales you tell in your book is about Amazon. So walk me through the process of moving a platform from a kind of healthy, constructive platform to becoming an extractive platform.

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