Mark Steyn: 'If Standard Oil Was Too Big in 1909, What Is Google Now?' - Interesting Question - Standard Oil dominated the oil products market through horizontal integration in refining, then, moved into vertical integration - Google is doing the same with information

Ladies and gentlemen... I've traveled over half our state to be here tonight. I couldn't get away sooner because my new data center was coming in at Berkeley County and I had to see about it. That data center is now flowing at two thousand exabytes and it's paying me an income of five billion dollars a week. I have two others crawling and I have sixteen data mining at Jackson County; so, ladies and gentlemen, if I say I'm an information man, you will agree. Now, you have a great chance here, but bear in mind, you can lose it all if you're not careful. Out of all men that beg for a chance to mine your personal information, maybe one in twenty will be information men; the rest will be speculators - that's men trying to get between you and the information men - to get some of the money that ought by rights come to you. Even if you find one that has money and means to data mine, he'll maybe know nothing about data mining and he'll have to hire the job out on contract, and then you're depending on a contractor who'll rush the job through so he can get another contract just as quick as he can. This is... the way that this works.

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