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The Farmer & Farmer Review . Modern Medicine . A Staging Ground for the Future

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But why does it matter how software companies behave? People are free to use or not to use software. There is no coercion here — people are free to decide. There are several reasons why software is important: First, because of network effects, if many people use a given piece of software, it becomes more and more likely that you will use it, too. As a citizen of a global community, you will want to use the tools and platforms that allow you to connect with the rest of your tribe and your species. And since not all of us are engineers, we should be able to trust those of us who are to build us nourishing spaces and tools, in the same way we trust farmers to grow us good food and architects to build us good buildings. Second, software is the staging ground for the future. The stakes are low right now, but they're about to get higher. At this moment of transition, we're straddling the rare evolutionary threshold between two scales of existence. Darwinian evolution at the individual level

The Farmer & Farmer Review . Modern Medicine . A Staging Ground for the Future But why does it matter how software companies behave? People are free to use or not to use software. There is no coercion here - people are free to decide. There are several reasons why software is important: First, because of network effects, if many people use a given piece of software, it becomes more and more likely that you will use it, too. As a citizen of a global community, you will want to use the tools and platforms that allow you to connect with the rest of your tribe and your species. And since not all o

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