#big-tech-dominance

#big-tech-dominance

So my thesis is that the internet, originally, was conceived as a very decentralized, communitarian network. It was funded by government money. And, in the late 80s, early 90s, when these libertarians came out of Silicon Valley, it changed radically. They understood that the internet could be a winner-takes-all business, and that there would be a single winner in search, a single winner in e-commerce, and, eventually, what developed as social networks; a single winner in that. And that's essentially what happened.