@ben ohh… if you are certain, you must remember more of the book than I do, but I will refresh my memory tonight. If so, the imperative is, what, … to build functioning value networks, a la PC industry that together delivered the PC while none of their individual parts could be used much on its own? What’s the equivalent in the fediverse? How well does the parallel work? (Questions to self as much as to you or the world in general …)