In 2017 or so, people started to assert that the FAANG companies—Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google—were unstoppable juggernauts. Lately that claim has taken some hard hits, as Facebook (now Meta) and Netflix, facing stiff competition, have seen their stock prices tumble. Adam Thierer, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, joins the show to discuss how the Schumpeterian “gale of creative destruction” unseats dominant market players, why government antitrust cases so often look foolish in hindsight, and why we should celebrate innovation (spoiler: it leads to progress and human betterment). Adam also discusses his book Evasive Entrepreneurs and the Future of Governance: How Innovation Improves Economies and Governments.
Corbin’s piece on monkeys and double pendulums—mentioned around 20:30—is “Can Experts Structure Markets? Don’t Count on It.”
#184: Sex Toy Hacking
#183: Is the Sharing Economy Progressive?
#182: Powering the Internet
#181: NextGen Air Traffic
#180: Mayday for Tech in the UK
#179: Hate Speech
#178: Is it time to break up Big Tech?
#177: Online Privacy and the BROWSER Act
#176: Future of Internet Copyright (w/ TechDirt)
#175: The Driverless Future
#174: Vaping and the FDA
#173: NSA Checks Itself?
#172: Future of Internet Regulation (w/ FCC Chairman Ajit Pai)
#171: Tech and Immigration
#170: Tech and Tax Reform
#169: The Future of Tech Policy
#168: FBI and Facial Recognition
#167: The Airbnb Wars Rage On
#166: Hacking the CIA
#165: Regulating the Universe
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