
Building the Bell System

Google was the endpoint of this process: It may represent open systems and leveled architecture, but with superb irony and strategic brilliance it came to almost completely control that openness. It's difficult to imagine another industry so thoroughly subservient to one player. In the Google model, there is one distributor of movies, which also ow... See more
Michael Wolff • The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet
George Packer in 2014, in a New Yorker piece detailing Amazon’s takeover of the book industry. With this data,