Industrial platforms extract data to cement monopolies over global manufacturing

Evidence

This is where industrial platforms come in, functioning as the basic core framework for linking together sensors and actuators, factories and suppliers, producers and consumers, software and hardware. … By positioning themselves as the intermediary between factories, consumers, and app developers, these platforms are ideally placed to monitor much of how global manufacturing operates, from the smallest actuator to the largest factory, and they draw upon these data to further solidify their monopoly position. — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 62

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines industrial platforms as the core framework connecting factory components and doubles as data-extraction nodes for monopolization.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core reading purpose: industrial platforms as a concrete instance of platform data-extraction rivaling Zuboff’s surveillance capitalism thesis — a case Zuboff’s account handles less directly. — connects to: Falling manufacturing profits drove capitalism toward data extraction via platform monopolies — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 17; Cooperative platforms cannot compete with entrenched data monopolies — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 100; Data plays the role today that money played in industrial capitalism — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 278 (+6 more)

Related

• Falling manufacturing profits drove capitalism toward data extraction via platform monopolies (similarity 0.89)
• Sharing-economy platforms fuse data extraction with labor at unprecedented scale (similarity 0.85)
• Platform companies converge into similar forms as they compete for the same data. (similarity 0.85)
• Industrial Internet platforms are dominated by incumbent manufacturers, not new startups (similarity 0.84)
• Platforms are the principal infrastructure through which capitalist data appropriation is normalized (similarity 0.83)
• Platforms are the first business model with data extraction built into their core DNA (similarity 0.83)
• Platform competition shifts from price to data as the competitive criterion (similarity 0.82)
• A platform’s structural position gives it privileged access to record interactions (similarity 0.81)
• Data extraction needs force previously separate platforms into direct competition. (similarity 0.80)
• Industrial internet reduces costs without transforming profitability, concentrating gains in platform owners (similarity 0.80)
• Platforms remain bound to capitalist competition and profitability despite anti-capitalist rhetoric (similarity 0.80)
• Traditional manufacturing was information-lossy, necessitating the platform model. (similarity 0.80)
• Network effects embed monopoly tendencies directly into platform structure (similarity 0.80)
• Falling recording costs turned data from peripheral to central capitalist resource. (similarity 0.79)
• Platforms reconfigure human life to continuously produce extractable data streams. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Cooperative platforms cannot compete with entrenched data monopolies #corroborates (0.95) — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 100
• Platform companies converge into similar forms as they compete for the same data. #complicates (0.85) — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 90
• Data extraction needs force previously separate platforms into direct competition. #expands (0.85) — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 90
• Data plays the role today that money played in industrial capitalism #expands (0.82) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 278
• Industrial Internet platforms are dominated by incumbent manufacturers, not new startups #qualifies (0.80) — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 62
• Sharing-economy platforms fuse data extraction with labor at unprecedented scale #exemplifies (0.78)
• Global data empires remain nationally rooted despite their worldwide extractive reach #qualifies (0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 333
• Building proprietary hardware and analytics drives platform centralisation #qualifies (0.75) — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 86