The Curse of Bigness | Robert Wright & Tim Wu [The Wright Show]

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Channel: Nonzero · 2018 · News & Politics

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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

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