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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

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In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

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I Actually Chatted with ChatGPT

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Lastly, ChatGPT is trained on data on the public internet (and can also browse the web to get more updated web contents), so it won’t do as well if you’re asking about things that haven’t been discussed much online. Alternatively, cars are now starting to directly embed AI into entertainment systems (e.g.,

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Communal Computing

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The term “ ubiquitous computing ” (also known as “pervasive computing”) was coined to discuss the installation of sensors around a space; the ideas behind ubiquitous computing later led to the Internet of Things (IoT). Communal Computing Comes Home.

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