How will the future unfold? What is the impact of technology on business & society? As technology reorders the world in which live, who will be the winners and who will be the losers? Join Azeem Azhar, curator of the Exponential View newsletter, in deep conversation with the world's leading thinkers and practitioners exploring these and other important questions. The views expressed on this podcast are those of its hosts, guests, and callers, and not those of Harvard Business Review.
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episode 13: Big Tech and a Decade of Antitrust with Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow, award-winning author, technologist, and founder, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the power of big tech monopolies and how a future wave of antitrust lawsuits could unleash innovation across the sector.
They also discuss:
- How antitrust litigation, even if it fails, has a powerful effect on corporate behavior.
- Why interoperability is key to a competitive marketplace.
- How software patents have been weaponized to protect monopolies.
Further resources:
- “Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, they need competition instead” (The Economist, 2019)
- “Google lawsuit: the opening salvo in a battle to restrain Big Tech” (Financial Times, 2020)
- “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism” (Online book by Cory Doctorow 2020)
- “How US Lawmakers Plan to Tackle Big Tech” (Exponential View – subscribers only, 2020)
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