will be perfectly broken at the interfaces between itself and its competitors. That moment where you are trying to do something that has no reason not to work, but it just doesn’t and there is no way around it without changing some piece of your software to fit more neatly within the silo? That’s gonna happen a lot. The argument was that the companies forming the innermost core of the tech industry could not be trusted to look after consumers’ interests as they looked after their own. And the power of the stacks seemed only to grow, and to make Sterling look prescient. In late July of 2016,
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