Maybe we're getting closer but I don't think "You (and the author) think this transformation is over" is accurate. There is no pre/post. Change is continuous. B

Maybe we're getting closer but I don't think "You (and the author) think this transformation is over" is accurate. There is no pre/post. Change is continuous. Business is tumultuous. Speaking for myself, I think over/not-over is part illusion to shake. It is part of the theory, which has failed. A pre-digital world and a digital world... where our first principles economics will finally play out. That day is not coming, marginal cost economics is not going to play to the "logical" conclusion. There is a real reality out there. In it, digitisation of content has consistently led to monopoly. Google produce the world's most popular operating system and web browser just to support their search monopoly. They have no intention of being a neutral pipe. To get grandiose... I feel like we are/were misguided by deterministic thinking. We see the possibilities of digitization, and assume they're inevitable. They aren't. They were opportunities, but they were never just going to manifest themselves. The WWW was/is free because TBL made it that way. We believed that openness was an inevitability. Reality has schooled us.