Opponents of the big tech monopolies are coming out in force. Match Group, Tile, Roku, Epic Games, Spotify, and the News Media Alliance are ripping apart the consensus in the business community.
Martin Gurri's book "The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium" is helpful in understanding why the left and right are joined against the techo-monopolists.
He divides today's world into the Center (government, mainstream media, technology firms, academia, and other organizations used to having near-monopoly power) and the Border, the rest of us.
It is technology that allows the Border every so often (printing press with penny dreadfuls, Internet with blogs) to break free of strictures mandated by the Center. Technology de-isolates members of the Border, allowing them to coordinate their responses. The Center, in reaction to its loss of monopoly, then lashes out.
Seen from this perspective, what is happening today makes perfect sense, whether in politics, technology, and even people's reactions to vaccines.
Martin Gurri's book "The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium" is helpful in understanding why the left and right are joined against the techo-monopolists.
He divides today's world into the Center (government, mainstream media, technology firms, academia, and other organizations used to having near-monopoly power) and the Border, the rest of us.
It is technology that allows the Border every so often (printing press with penny dreadfuls, Internet with blogs) to break free of strictures mandated by the Center. Technology de-isolates members of the Border, allowing them to coordinate their responses. The Center, in reaction to its loss of monopoly, then lashes out.
Seen from this perspective, what is happening today makes perfect sense, whether in politics, technology, and even people's reactions to vaccines.
Judge YGR, who is presiding over the Epic Games v. Apple case, was an Obama appointee, not a Bush appointee.