Event overview
Platform Capitalism
What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of the economy: the emergence of platform capitalism.
This talk critically examines these new business forms, showing how the fundamental foundations of the economy are rapidly being carved up among a small number of monopolistic platforms, and how the platform introduces new tendencies within capitalism that pose significant challenges to any vision of a post-capitalist future.
Particular attention will be paid to the geopolitical and capitalist competition emerging over AI, and what this means for the future of the economy more broadly.
Bio:
Nick Srnicek is a lecturer at City, University of London. He is the author of Platform Capitalism (016), Inventing the Future (2015 with Alex Williams), and is currently writing After Work (with Helen Hester).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 6 Feb 2017 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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