Acknowledgments

The author would like to acknowledge the generous help he received from many people while preparing this report. Apart from those mentioned in in the text, particular thanks go to Alessandro Acquisti of Carnegie Mellon University, Aline Blankertz of Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, Martin Casado of Andreessen Horowitz, Dirk Didascalou of AWS, Martin Fleming of IBM, Jason Furman of Harvard University, Ali Ghodsi of Databricks, John Hagel of Deloitte, Stephen Orban of AWS, Tony Curzon Price of openDemocracy, Henry Farrell of George Washington University, Thomas Ramge, Ping Li of Accel Partners, Matt Prewitt of RadicalxChange, Max Schireson of Battery Ventures, James Short of University of California, San Diego, Bipul Sinha of Rubrik, Dawn Song of Oasis Labs, Juila White of Microsoft and Matei Zaharia of Databricks.