Dead Media Beat: Consequences of the Death of Google

*"Too big to fail."

http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2010/02/the-day-that-google-died/

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Currently the vast majority of "humanity's data" lies in the hands of individual corporations.

Companies like Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Apple, IBM, and Microsoft have staked their future on the value of the information being collected and archived in their datacenters. They have created the systems for collecting it, and have invested heavily in vast server farms for storing it.

However, if one of these...