One weird trick to make monopolies self-destruct

Remember when corporate raiders broke companies up?

Cory Doctorow

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The Google ‘Googleplex’ office by night. It has been split in two by a giant axe, whose handle is emblazoned with the Wall Street ‘raging bull’ statue. Image: Sam Valadi (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/132084522@N05/17086570218/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Jimmy Baikovicius (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/jikatu/22143653260/ CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2020 novel Ministry For the Future was a groundbreaking work: it’s the tale of a detailed, plausible transition from a world on a collision course with civilization-ending climate catastrophe to one where the challenge is met, with humanity collectively deciding to save…

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