Anti-trust – 21st century style
All of us know when a
particular company or cabal of companies begin to and then control a sector of
products, it invokes attention. These companies are sometimes subject to
the anti-trust provisions of the law, i.e. Sherman Anti-Trust. That was yesterday, when companies created an
unfair market advantage to increase profits.
Many companies were broken up in this way, notably Standard Oil.
Today is different,
with monopolies and cabals created to hold information, the commodity of the
future. Implied here is that large
corporations such as Amazon and Facebook contain so much information about
citizens, it can actually affect what people do and how they buy. By marketing information, they will soon be
moving into altering what citizens think, and even how they vote. The tip of this is already evident, with many
pundits and news anchors discussing that such firms are becoming too big and
controlling too much leverage in America. Alas, even they don’t know what to
do. Shipping multiple millions of units pales next
to mining and controlling multiple million-exabytes of data.
Information is the
commodity of the future.
Just take a quick look
at how many “information” companies are surging financially and continue to do
so. They have tools, such as deep learning, that few understand. It seems
obvious that some politician will adopt these ideas and develop legislation to rein
in such firms, restricting how information can be used and sold. This is a tall order, with most all of them having
little understanding of how powerful massive information data lakes can
be.
I say, hurry, hurry, hurry
somebody before the process is so deeply embedded, it will be nearly impossible
to extricate from this trend.
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