The most interesting part of these chapters of Lessig for me was his focus on things such as Netflix and Amazon and how they've changed the way that many people interact within the economy and how the economy operates in general.
Things like Netflix and Amazon allow people looking for certain items such as a movie to rent or something they're able to purchase over Amazon are no longer made to interact face-to-face with the person representing the business loaning them the movie to rent or handing them the item they've purchased. Netflix and Amazon have so drastically changed the way people rent movies and shop that similar businesses such as Blockbuster and Wal-Mart have had to adapt their services in order to compete and not fall behind in the technology department.
It is extremely interesting to think about a business like Wal-Mart that has been around for many, many years and how much it has had to evolve in order to remain in competition with these new e-based businesses that have changed the way the vast majority of people shop and do other things that once were unable to do without visiting a business in person.
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