Is Amazon in the position where they have so much cash on hand that the most promising short-term growth strategy is for them to aggressively buy new companies? It seems like this is a model of growth for over-expansion —- or world domination along the lines of tech-campus states in Oryx and Crake.
They have their fingers in so
many pies and realms of data that it seems like they are quickly becoming hegemonic data holders. They’re already expanding into healthcare, which chills me to my bone, beyond that they’ve basically covered every facet of the typical Westerner’s existence with no sign of stopping.
It’s high time for anti-trust laws on data, including the sharing and mass aggregation of data through and by intermediates.
They have their fingers in so many pies and realms of data that it seems like they are quickly becoming hegemonic data holders. They’re already expanding into healthcare, which chills me to my bone, beyond that they’ve basically covered every facet of the typical Westerner’s existence with no sign of stopping.
It’s high time for anti-trust laws on data, including the sharing and mass aggregation of data through and by intermediates.