Learning, Economic Trends
Yup. Amazon et al are too big. Now what do we do?



Benedict Evans is a an analyst who focuses on the strategic and operating issues around consumer technology. Every year he produces "a big presentation digging into macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. This year, ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’ looks at what it means that 4bn people have a smartphone; we connected everyone, and now we wonder what the Next Big Thing is, but meanwhile, connecting everyone means we connected all the problems".

He gave this presentation at an event in Davos in January 2020. It's a comprehensive survey of where the 21st century economy is and how we got here. His answer to 'what's the Next Big Thing?' is not a new technology, but regulation of the tech we've got. And that's complicated. But he's got some clear ideas about how to do it right. 

PDF: Tech in 2020. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants