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It seems to me that what we're seeing is the slow consolidation of technology into a few dozen monopolies: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, now Facebook. Thes
by DanielBMarkham 16y ago
It seems to me that what we're seeing is the slow consolidation of technology into a few dozen monopolies: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, now Facebook.
These monopolies allow other small business to exist at their pleasure in sort of a symbiotic relationship. Sometimes there are clear guidelines, but mostly there's a lot of room for interpretation and fudging. People push the limits, then every now and then the Lord of the Fiefdom takes a few out and shoots them (economically, of course) for misbehavior.
If we had this same situation in real life it would be obvious that there is a problem going on. But somehow because it's all digital it seems to be okay. For now.
It will be very interesting to see how this all plays out over the next couple of decades.
- elviejo 16y agoI think this is just a "dark ages" kind of thing. The reason why the internet works is because it is a distributed system. As Alan Kay would call it "the only true object oriented system in operation" I hope people will realize that you cannot depend in a benevolent overlord and try to use their own infrastructure.
- andrewljohnson 16y agoPeople use the word monopoly very casually and rhetorically, but never correctly.