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Alec J. Ross
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The Geography of Future Markets
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The high-water mark for Belarus and the Internet is a social media-savvy graduate student in Massachusetts named Evgeny Morozov, who writes neo-Luddite screeds against American technology companies, advancing the official views of Russia and Belarus.
lmao what????
The high-water mark for Belarus and the Internet is a social media-savvy graduate student in Massachusetts named Evgeny Morozov, who writes neo-Luddite screeds against American technology companies, advancing the official views of Russia and Belarus.
lmao what????
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In Silicon Valley on February 19, 2014, the day after the protests broke out in Kiev, Ukrainian American WhatsApp founder Jan Koum signed a $19 billion deal to sell his company to Facebook. For Ukraine, that same $19 billion would have been the answer to its short-term bond, debt and gas bills.
The fact that Ukraine's economic lifeline could be equal in cost to the purchase of a mobile messaging app--created by a Ukrainian emigrant--exemplifies how much potential Ukraine has an d how badly that potential was being squandered under Ukraine's prior, Russian-model government. [...]
um no? it exemplifies the absolute lunacy of an economic system that allows FB to control so much capital
In Silicon Valley on February 19, 2014, the day after the protests broke out in Kiev, Ukrainian American WhatsApp founder Jan Koum signed a $19 billion deal to sell his company to Facebook. For Ukraine, that same $19 billion would have been the answer to its short-term bond, debt and gas bills.
The fact that Ukraine's economic lifeline could be equal in cost to the purchase of a mobile messaging app--created by a Ukrainian emigrant--exemplifies how much potential Ukraine has an d how badly that potential was being squandered under Ukraine's prior, Russian-model government. [...]
um no? it exemplifies the absolute lunacy of an economic system that allows FB to control so much capital