ABSTRACT
Building directly on the architectural concerns of Chapters 3 and 4, we now examine forms of software that are only possible because of networking. These are the forms of software that represent the current contradiction between information systems that tend towards zero marginal cost and business models that must manufacture scarcity and enclosure in order to survive (Mason 2016). We move from the architectures that make these connected services work, through the social and economic systems that make them viable, and to the epistemic and ethical consequences that are the result.
