"It is time to start thinking of the biggest
technology companies as similar to states. These companies exercise a form of
sovereignty over a rapidly expanding realm that extends beyond the reach of
regulators: digital space. They bring resources to geopolitical competition but
face constraints on their power to act.”— Ian Bremmer, founder and president of
Eurasia Group, “
The Technopolar Moment: How Digital Powers Will Reshape the Global Order,” Foreign Affairs, November/December 2021Let's see how much longer those "constraints on their power" last.
The accompanying photo of Mark Zuckerberg, founder of
Facebook (or Meta, or whatever the heck he’s calling it these days to disguise
its malodorous ways) and one of the pillars of Big Tech, was taken at the F8 2018 Keynote on Apr. 3, 2018, by Anthony
Quintano from Honolulu, HI.)
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