Links 2019-11-10
On too big to fail tech …
- How big tech is dragging us towards the next financial crash, Rana Foroohar, The Guardian
Like the big banks, big tech uses its lobbying muscle to avoid regulation, and thinks it should play by different rules. And like the banks, it could be about to wreak financial havoc on us all.
- Absolute scale corrupts absolutely – apenwarr
The Internet has gotten too big.
- Silicon Valley Techies Still Think They’re the Good Guys. They’re Not. | Erin Griffith, WIRED
Will anyone ever write another positive story about a tech startup? I said probably not.
- How Evil Is Tech? – David Brooks, The New York Times
Some now believe tech is like the tobacco industry — corporations that make billions of dollars peddling a destructive addiction.
- Nothing Fails Like Success – Jeffrey Zeldman, A List Apart
Buying something you can’t afford, and borrowing from organizations that don’t have your (or your customers’) best interest at heart, is the business plan of most internet startups.
- How billions vanish into the black hole that is the security industry, Dimitri Tokmetzis and Maaike Goslinga, The Correspondent
The [EU] Commission has been trying to boost the security industry for ten years now, and nearly €2 billion has already been funneled into security research.