This 449-page report describes the development history and problems between the United States and technology giants. Among them, there are many monopoly market phenomena in which these four enterprises have suppressed their competitors for a long time;
We know that when an enterprise is strong enough in a certain industry, there will be a certain monopoly between technology and products, tangible and intangible, which is nothing more than maintaining the leading position in the industry; But for the country, this phenomenon will obviously inhibit the innovation and development of other enterprises, which is not conducive to social progress and stability.
We have known the monopoly of these enterprises on industrial products for a long time, and it is not the first time to investigate their monopoly; The "449" out of the game also reflects that it has obviously been fully investigated and prepared, and some solutions have also been given; Even compare the monopoly of these enterprises on the technology and products of existing industries to the oil tycoon and the monopoly tycoon that appeared in the railroad tycoon era.
But for people engaged in blockchain, they may find different meanings;
Although Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google all have their own monopoly industries, they all belong to Internet companies, and the growth of the Internet is precisely because of the split of telecommunications and railways and even oil monopoly in the United States. Then, since the United States can split powerful oligarchs, it is not impossible for these Internet companies to have such a situation in the future. Then, to do this, we need new technologies to influence and change the Internet industry. As a decentralized blockchain, it is likely to shoulder this heavy responsibility.
Taking social networks as an example, social media based on blockchain is likely to benefit from confrontation with Facebook. According to statistics, since its establishment in 2004, Facebook has repeatedly banned the disclosure of personal information; In 2006, 2007, 2008, 20 10, 20 18, this situation appeared again and again. For the majority of users, they may have felt helpless. If there are any alternatives, I believe they will resolutely choose to change;
And decentralized socialization may really do this; If a social media, personal information can be encrypted through blockchain technology, and then individuals save private keys, and all requests for personal information require personal permission, then this situation can be greatly improved; This is of great significance to users who pay more and more attention to the protection of personal information.
After Netflix released a new documentary called "Social Dilemma", many users reconsidered the necessity of having accounts such as Facebook and Instagram. Social Dilemma is praised by the media as "the most important documentary of our time", which reveals how technology companies influence national elections, "track" billions of people on the Internet, put targeted advertisements on them, and come up with addictive functions. As young people in the new era, they may even hate the impact of this situation on themselves;
Seeking to make Internet intermediaries more neutral and open, and get rid of the control of powerful third parties, these third parties can use their accumulated information to achieve their goals, which seems to be a fairly clear use case, that is, essentially turning to decentralized applications and websites. In other words, this is the infrastructure established by the blockchain society in the past decade.
Blockchain technology has the characteristics of decentralization; After years of research and development, DAPP using this technology has emerged, decentralized social platforms, such as voice, decentralized content platforms, and even decentralized retail markets or blockchain in products to achieve traceability or product certainty. ; I believe that with the improvement of blockchain industrial infrastructure, most Internet-related technologies or industrial applications will appear on the blockchain;
In this process, it may experience a complete explosion from prosperity to chaos to application, then a phenomenal application process, and finally return to monopoly; Perhaps this is the process of social development, with great similarity; At the same time, in a few years, new technologies will break this monopoly and create new technologies and application forms; However, there is no doubt that the next long time belongs to the blockchain era, so we should not miss it.