Digital platforms, such as Amazon, Etsy, Facebook, Google and Uber, to name a few, are radically changing how we work, socialize, create value in the economy and compete over shares of total value created. This new, digitally based economy has been given a variety of names based on its perceived attributes. It has variously 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 system is having on workers and their compensation. 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 social life. As Larry Lessig famously said, “Code, which is ‘West Coast’ law, is becoming as powerful and, perhaps, more powerful than juridical law.”