Are platforms silently killing the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
The platformization of the economy has been a reckless phenomenon of the last few months, with the rise of numerous digital marketplaces, which have contributed to widen the gap between the real and the digital economy. The risk we are running is that, while we witness the rise of digital industrial complexes capable of derailing market efficiency, untenable digital rents are being imposed upon every aspect of the real economy that still requires access to technological solutions of daily use.