The Big Tech vision to 10x its value through a global AI expansion

Google won the old web, now the race is on to build the new. Tech's titans are carving it up, billion by billion, as they cash in on AI's game changer

Image generated by Midjourney: Prompt was Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as a railroad entrepreneur during the British industrial revolution of the 1800s

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I’ve been following AI since 1999, run an AI company for a decade, and most recently, been tracking global economics to highlight how it has created tech titans.

I have termed Big Tech’s relentless hoarding of revenue, attention, and audience, as the Landgrab.

• I’ve explored how it’s achieved, often subliminally and targeting the young.

• How it’s enabled five corporations to accrue wealth greater than nation states.

• How $13 trillion has flowed to a few, leaving the world poorer in its wake, and.

• How AI can be a reset if handled responsibly and with a social conscience.

Did you know it took 1,804 years for the Earth’s population to reach one billion people.

It took just 123 years to get to two, then 33 years for three, 14, years for four, 13 years for five, then 12 years each for six, seven to get us to the eight billion today.

That’s a lot of people who need technology to work.

A clue to what happens next can be found in Norway.

But first, have you ever wondered how much money there is in the world?