> GOOGLE, Facebook and other online giants like to see their rapid rise as the product of their founders’ brilliance. Others argue that their success is more a result of lucky timing and network effects—the economic forces that tend to make bigger firms even bigger.
(Take it easy with that down arrow button :) but yet others see their rapid rise as sponsored fronts for Intelligence.
[p.s. & I would be delighted to be presented with thoughtful replies that show /why/ the above view can not possibly be true.]
How could you possibly say that it is not relevant to OP?
If the handful of uber social network platforms are in fact run by intelligence, then /minimally/ articles such as OP are whitewashing these platforms. More fundamentally, they are just herding us to accept corporate "champions" that may in fact be under the control of unaccountable arms of the same corporate-statist regime.
(Take it easy with that down arrow button :) but yet others see their rapid rise as sponsored fronts for Intelligence.
[p.s. & I would be delighted to be presented with thoughtful replies that show /why/ the above view can not possibly be true.]