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Technology is all around us. But what physical and digital structures actually make up this infrastructure? Furthermore, what sort of implications does the management and control of digital infrastructure have on society and the economy at large?
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The internet’s best job — traffic cop

It may not be at the top of a police department’s org chart, but on the internet, traffic cop is one of the best and most coveted positions there is. There are somewhere around one billion websites at present, with some three billion people accessing them across more connected devices than there are human beings […]

Beyond Chicken & Egg

In this talk from our 2017 Digital Transformation Summit, Chiara Farronato an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Andrei Hagiu a visiting Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at MIT Sloan School of Management moderated the panel.

Gillian Hadfield on rules for a flat world

On November 2nd, 2016 the Digital Seminar series hosted Gillian Hadfield from the Gould School of Law at the University of California.

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Dongmyun Lee on GiGA infrastructure-based business transformation

In this flash talk from our 2017 Future Assembly conference, Dongmyun Lee from KT Corporation (formerly Korea Telecom) shares KT’s experience moving into and trying to establish a business model in the GiGA-infrastructure commodity market.

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Ben Edelman on deregulation, fair competition, and rule of law

Presented at the Digital Initiative 2017 Future Assembly, in this flash talk, Professor Ben Edelman from Harvard Business School explored the issue of “spontaneous deregulation” – when a company deregulating itself by ignoring the laws that disallow its planned activity.

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Robert Cannon on the internet interconnection ecosystem

On May 4th, 2016 the Digital Seminar series hosted Robert Cannon from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He gave a talk called “Evolution of the Internet Interconnection Ecosystem.”

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Hong Luo and Julie Mortimer on copyright enforcement

On February 10th, 2016 the Digital Seminar series hosted Hong Luo from Harvard Business School and Julie Mortimer from Boston College. They gave a talk called “Copyright Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments.”

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