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Watching Tesla’s video of a door-to-door self driving car offers an amazing glimpse into an autonomous and robotic future But there was also a disturbing footnote to the announcement: you are not allowed to let your self-driving Tesla operate as part of Uber or Lyft, only as part of some forthcoming Tesla network. Now you might ask, is such a restriction legal? Haven’t I, as the purchaser, paid for the car? And normally, once I have paid for a car, doesn’t the manufacturer have no further say...

The power of the web has been that it has given us permissionless publishing. Want to publish your opinion? You no longer need to submit a letter to the editor of a newspaper in hope of it being published – you can just put it on your own website. Through additions to the original web specifications we have managed to extend this permissionless nature of innovation from content to entire applications. But the web specifications have been missing a crucial ingredient. We don’t have a standard ...