The Curse of Bigness | Robert Wright & Tim Wu [The Wright Show]
2,805 views · Published 13 November 2018 · 1:04:38 · Indexed 10 October 2026
Channel: Nonzero · 2018 · News & Politics
1:34 Tim’s new book, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age 5:41 Tim: We’re approaching a Standard Oil–like consolidation in tech 11:52 Some subtle negative effects of monopoly 19:13 Type in “batteries” on Amazon, and the first result is batteries made by Amazon 22:47 Tim critiques Robert Bork’s famous critique of antitrust law 31:16 Why Bob is worried about monopoly in artificial intelligence 38:25 Mark Zuckerberg as the “bad king” of tech 44:47 How Google and Amazon might be broken up Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Tim Wu (Columbia Law School, timwu.org, The Master Switch) Recorded on October 23, 2018 Join the conversation on Bloggingheads.tv: http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/54103 Subscribe to the Bloggingheads.tv YouTube channel: https://goo.gl/ccLFDY Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bloggingheads Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloggingheads/ Subscribe to our podcast feeds: https://bloggingheads.tv/subscribe