The technology sector’s rise in relevance, utility, and power in our lives and the international landscape has been increasingly self-evident over the 21st century. The past decade saw once-charming upstarts become behemoths who drew scrutiny from a wide range of critics. And the COVID-19 pandemic has only grown the sector’s salience and our dependence on their products, heightening the contradictory position. As we emerge from that pandemic with the rising awareness of this dependence, there are tons of questions about what happens next, which the Big Tech Ticket will address. James Rogers, a journalist with more than two decades covering the tech industry, will be the host of the Big Tech Ticket. The show will feature interviews with experts, decision makers, academics, and executives in the field, and will appear on Wednesdays.
Episodes
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
We've discussed the ongoing challenges the technology sector will face in the months and years to come, in terms of regulation, reputation, competition, and more. Often, our and the wider media's lens is on the U.S. front, and how changes in U.S. federal or state policy might affect U.S. companies, and how they might react.
As this week's guest, Anupam Chander, reminds us, these tech companies are global giants. Which means their company-wide decisions and regulatory context is also global. In today's episode, he talks about that global context for tech companies, the inevitability that internet usage and globalization is going to expand, and how last year's Tik Tok / U.S. government kerfuffle highlights a risk from poorly thought government action.
Topics Covered
- 1:00 minute mark – The shape of the legal battlefield ahead for big tech and for new tech firms
- 4:30 – The dot com era parallel for start-up creation
- 6:45 – “Online” as a part of everything
- 8:15 – The irreversible nature of our modern internet dependence
- 10:30 – How the global nature of big tech firms affects their decision making
- 13:30 – The inevitability of increased globalization in services
- 18:00 – Tech hubs of the future
- 21:00 – The effect on consumers and the Tik Tok example
- 25:30 – The Biden administration’s stance, and the key issues that came out with Tik Tok’s saga
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