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The great virtue of the Internet is that it erodes power,β the influential technologist Esther Dyson said. βIt sucks power out of the center, and takes it to the periphery, it erodes the power of institutions over people while giving to individuals the power to run their lives.β26 The problem, though, is that disintermediation has not lived up to its potential.
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Astra Taylor (The Peopleβs Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age)