Technology and economic power

Pierre Hessler

pp. 279-283

in: Patrick J. Coppock, Graeme Kirkpatrick, Olli T. Leino, Anita Leirfall (eds), The philosophy of computer games, Philosophy & Technology 27 (2), 2014.

Abstract

Large corporations—from Apple to Volkswagen—are powerful; whereas their customers are much less powerful. But many observers believe that information and communication technologies are giving consumers weapons to level the playing field. Is this really true?