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Digital services deteriorate as they scale up
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Results (8 votes):
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(8 votes)
For 6 (75%)
Abstain 0 (0%)
Against 2 (25%)
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For (3)
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Tim HarfordFT columnist; economistvotes For and says:
Perhaps this is just nostalgia and such complaints are the disaffected grumbling of an out-of-touch cohort of early adopters. Or it could be the “headwinds” effect, familiar to any cyclist, which is that you always notice headwinds but take tailwinds...
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Miguel A. Díez FerreiraFounder & CEO @startupsSI . Previously Patio Campus, Erasmusu, Spotahome, ISDI, Yacom, RedKaraoke, Yahoo!, Vocento, Terra... Long story 😅votes For and says:
When numbers skyrocket and laggards start to arrive, who make completely unexpected uses of your technology, when a chat turns into an email, an email into chat or into a personal notes repository, when rankings and algorithms are attempted to be hac...
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Eugene WeiProduct thinker and tech bloggervotes For and says:
This development is interesting for another reason: graph-based social capital allocation mechanisms can suffer from runaway winner-take-all effects. In essence, some networks reward those who gain a lot of followers early on with so much added expos...
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Against (2)
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Kevin KellyWired founding editor; futuristvotes Against and says:
This tendency of networks to drastically amplify small inputs leads to the second key axiom of network logic: the law of increasing returns. In one way or another this law undergirds much of the strange behavior in the network economy. The simplest v...
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Michael J. MauboussinInvestment strategist; author; Columbia professorvotes Against and says:
Well, the value of the network is the value of the service increasing as more people use it.
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