October 2024
Beginner to intermediate
208 pages
2h 46m
English
by Alex Tapscott
For most of the industrial age, technology has acted as a tailwind for creators, powering an age of mass culture that supported a professional class of working artists. However, more recently, the rise of digital technology—specifically, the internet and AI—has become a source of economic dislocation.
Web1, the so-called read web, was a digital printing press that democratized access to information, but it also commoditized art and music and undermined creators’ rights as their IP got laundered in the web’s swirling washing machine of content.
Web2, the read-write web, made it easier to publish content, share ideas and access a broader audience (i.e., “write” to the ...
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