Digital platforms such as, Amazon, Etsy, Facebook, Google and Uber, are radically changing how we work, socialize, create value in the economy and compete over shares of total value created. This digitally based new economy has been given a variety of names based on some of its perceived attributes. It has been called the "platform economy," focusing on the medium through which value is created and work is organized, or, by contrast, the Gig Economy/the Precariat/1099 Economy, focusing on the impact this emerging economy is having on workers and how they are compensated. Yet others, especially those studying the open-source software movement and Wikipedia, have termed some of the particular platforms as a "sharing economy." We need to understand these changes as part of an overarching process by which software is increasingly the nervous system that is undergirding and organizing everyday life.