Where’s my free lunch?
summary
Free services carry real costs: an NPM package deletion breaks builds and exposes dependency risk, VC-backed apps like Everything.me raised $35 million in three rounds and still shut down despite 15 million users, advertising economics drive 2 out of 3 Millennials to use ad blockers, Google Trips indexes travel data back to 2003, law enforcement seeks Amazon Echo data, NHS shares 11.6 million records with Google, and manufacturers replace labor — 60,000 jobs replaced with robots — so dependency, data and business-model risks are the actual tradeoffs.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:56$35M in 3 rounds. 15M users
- 11:51Orwell's Society
- 12:12Huxley's Society
- 12:42Amusing Ourselves to Death
- 14:22We're paying
- 22:08The Web Experience
- 27:08Sustainable Models
- 31:07Our role
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