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born 1960 England

Paul Mason (born 23 January 1960) is an English journalist and broadcaster. He was Culture and Digital Editor of Channel 4 News, becoming the programme's Economics Editor on 1 June 2014, a post he formerly held on BBC2's Newsnight programme.

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An economy based on information, with its tendency to zero-cost products and weak property rights, cannot be a capitalist economy.

PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future (2015)

The economy is already producing and reproducing a networked lifestyle and consciousness, at odds with the hierarchies of capitalism. The appetite for radical economic change is clear.

PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future (2015)

Once the Internet of Things is rolled out, we are at the real takeoff point of the information economy. From then on, the key principle is to create democratic social control over aggregated information, and to prevent its monopolization or misuse by states and corporations.

PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future (2015)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paul Mason (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.