Podcasting “Vertically Challenged”

We need to investigate the companies Big Tech DOESN’T buy.

5 min readMar 14, 2022

A ‘big brain’ Talosian alien from ‘The Cage,’ the 1965 pilot for Star Trek: the original series; the alien’s face has been replaced with Mark Zuckerberg’s. Image: Anthony Quintano (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_Zuckerberg_F8_2019_Keynote_(32830578717).jpg CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en Star Trek/Paramount (modified): https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/star_trek/

This week on my podcast, I read “Vertically Challenged,” my latest Locus column, on the “vertical integration” of Big Tech firms, who have merged and acquired their way to dominance:

https://locusmag.com/2022/03/cory-doctorow-vertically-challenged/

Podcasting “Vertically Challenged”

We need to investigate the companies Big Tech DOESN’T buy.

Written by Cory Doctorow