frictionless Concepts

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe · 6 Dec 2016 · 254pp · 76,064 words

kind of genetic experiments that were only recently the stuff of expensive, exclusive laboratories.19 Finally, crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have built nearly frictionless platforms for raising money to develop anything from small art projects to major consumer appliances. These are real-time examples of emergence in action. They allow

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

by Tim Wu · 4 Nov 2025 · 246pp · 65,143 words

had a way to find buyers, and everyone had the advantages of convenient shipping. It was, in a sense, an economist’s dream: a near-frictionless platform of unlimited size and complete information, connecting buyers and sellers who might otherwise have never found each other. These attractions induced many to take the

Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism

by Robin Chase · 14 May 2015 · 330pp · 91,805 words

platforms that make it simple for peers to participate and to exploit the excess capacity identified. Think about what it takes to forge a resilient, frictionless platform for peer-to-peer car sharing. Acquiring the appropriate group insurance is at best a year-long effort (and at worst five years and counting

The Internet Is Not the Answer

by Andrew Keen · 5 Jan 2015 · 361pp · 81,068 words

a preview of this distributed capitalism system powered by the network effect of positive feedback loops. Investors like Andreessen see the Internet—a supposedly hyperefficient, “frictionless” platform for buyers and sellers—as an upgrade to the structural inefficiencies of the top-down twentieth-century economy. Along with peer-to-peer currencies like

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to create a “what you want when you want it” twenty-first-century economy. They believe that the Internet, as a hyperefficient and so-called frictionless platform for buyers and sellers, is the solution to what they call the “inefficiencies” of the twentieth-century economy. No matter that much of the business

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well have said: Let’s just TaskRabbit and Uberize the economy. Let’s just turn everything into the so-called sharing economy, a hyperefficient and frictionless platform for networked buyers and sellers. Let’s outsource labor so that everyone is paid by the day, by the hour, by the minute. Because that

Platform Scale: How an Emerging Business Model Helps Startups Build Large Empires With Minimum Investment

by Sangeet Paul Choudary · 14 Sep 2015 · 302pp · 73,581 words

a vibrant cycle of value creation. • Quality control and relevance: The open and frictionless nature of a platform leads to conflicting priorities. Being open and frictionless, platforms invite abundance. YouTube’s content and eBay’s listings speak of abundance. It is important to ensure that a platform offers quality and relevance to

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words

same way that the urban landscape was sanitized to make way for the automobile, a similar process will be necessary to make way for the frictionless world of technologically mediated consumption that tech companies desire to usher in. There are benefits to some forms of on-demand services and ecommerce, but the

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

by Evgeny Morozov · 15 Nov 2013 · 606pp · 157,120 words

—not efficiency or ease of use—as a productive resource that, properly deployed, can highlight complex issues that are very hard to see in a frictionless world. Another of their transformational products is a Forget Me Not reading lamp. Once switched on, Forget Me Not starts closing like a flower, as its

User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work & Play

by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant · 7 Nov 2019

stripped away so that reality can be concentrated.7 Forty years after it opened, today’s Disney World does indeed offer a glimpse of a frictionless world with annoyances buffed away by technology. But only a glimpse, because the MagicBands, and the original dream for them, buckled under reality. The difficulties Disney

The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us

by Tim Sullivan · 6 Jun 2016 · 252pp · 73,131 words

’ houses or smokes in their bathrooms, because Angie’s List will tell you all that, for a fee. Essentially, once you find yourself outside the frictionless world of perfect markets, there’s a potential role for an intermediary to sit between the two sides.14 Lots of market evangelists have taken the

Understanding Asset Allocation: An Intuitive Approach to Maximizing Your Portfolio

by Victor A. Canto · 2 Jan 2005 · 337pp · 89,075 words

anticipated, I also contend investors and portfolio managers who are tuned in to location effects can sail with the wind at their backs. In a frictionless world, production factors and the mobility of goods and services guarantee differences in rates of return are arbitraged away. In such an idealized world, PPP holds