Then along came the new giants of tech. Silicon Valley’s biggest companies don’t merely crave monopoly as a matter of profit; its pundits and theorists don’t merely tolerate gigantism as a fact of economic life. In the great office parks south of San Francisco, monopoly is a spiritual yearning, a concept unabashedly embraced. Big tech considers the concentration of power in its companies—in the networks they control—an urgent social good, the precursor to global harmony, a necessary condition for undoing the alienation of humankind.
