In some ways, the labor-capital pendulum has begun to swing back toward capital domination for large-scale compute. You need a lot of capital to get an up-to-da

In some ways, the labor-capital pendulum has begun to swing back toward capital domination for large-scale compute. You need a lot of capital to get an up-to-date web-scale index, today. Of course, the "pendulum" isn't discrete and is really a result of the plummeting cost of computing equipment so that both the garage hacker and the mega-corp can deliver outsized value by leveraging their unique traits.