Big Tech Is Already the Government of the Internet — Part One

What do Governments do?

Image: George Tooker, “Government Bureau” (1956), The Metropolitan Museum of Art and DC Moore Gallery (source). Used without permission.

A few months after I started my career as a public servant, I attended a keynote session at a conference titled ‘Could Google run the Government?” The question caused a stir among the gathered public administrators; some soft noises of affirmation mingled with the agitated hubbub and groans of government employees…