Frischmann’s infrastructure theory is the missing piece. I’ll pull his definitions—especially passive and natural shared resources—then recast the stack against them.Frischmann’s cut is functional, not chronological. Infrastructure is whatever is a shared means to many ends: partly nonrival, used as an input, and general-purpose enough that you cannot price the downstream life it enables. That is why atmosphere, language, lakes, basic research, legal systems, roads, the internet, and the electromagnetic spectrum all sit in the same category for him.
Brand treated infrastructure as a sector with a mid-range replacement cycle. Frischmann treats it as a role. Once you do that, the passive substrates stop belonging next to commerce.
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