News and Research articles on Technofeudalism

Plans for the metaverse are threatening to move us out of market capitalism into a technofeudal order – liberal market governance is no longer a sufficient regulatory response.

KEYWORDS: Metaverse, Interoperability, Inequality, Freedom, Technofeudalism

Internet Policy Review is an open access and peer-reviewed journal on internet regulation.

Scholars, regulators, journalists, activists, and other stakeholders publish in the journal in a variety of formats

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News and Research articles on Technofeudalism

Superhighway to serfdom: The political economy of the metaverse

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not peer reviewed