Matlock Report
Where MARKETS ↔ TECHNOLOGY ↔ GOVERNMENTS Interconnect
“Our goal is not to build a platform. It’s to be across all of them.” – Mark Zuckerberg, 2011 “This was the beginning of surveillance capitalism, and the end of the Internet as I knew it.” – Edward Joseph Snowden, 2019 “I’ll trade you these gold “Mastercoins” for your ruby ring,” I asked my friend …
“Glory Days. Well they’ll pass you by…In the wink of a young girl’s eye…” – “The Boss,” Bruce Springsteen Great expectations presume that what you expect, in your mind, is great, even if it is not. Listening to the phrase, “Make America Great Again” for the past three years, I have come to see its …
The Alphabet who? “Google it.” One day, attending middle school, I was checking out a book at the library. Opening the book flap, I recognized the name on the listed card – a school bully. An idea occurred to me. So on my next visit to the library, I visited the librarian. “Hello, may I …
Are you in Healthcare? Nurse, Doctor, Pharmacist, or Hospital worker? You will want to hear about my childhood medical emergency, industry and governmental views. If you are a Biotechnology & Patent Lawyer or in the Tobacco Industry, read my ideas and insights from those in these fields. “Scars remind us that the past was real” …
Antitrust Probes → Breaking Up↗ ≠ ↘Breaking Down “We think one of the best ways to stay small is just to stay smaller.” -Sheryl Sandberg I would add, stay liquid. In a Bloomberg Businessweek2011 interview, Sandberg presents a clear strategic plan as “She believes that other booming Internet companies that doubled or tripled their staffs…eventually …
“Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.” – Martin Heidegger “We want to make sure these networks are fast, reliable, but also secure.” – U.S. FCC Chairman Chairman, Sir, a machine, weapon, vehicle, or airplane fit these criteria. But is 5G safe? User and the Dasein in the world. …
In the end, it all comes down to “who controls the lines of communication.” I would venture to say the T-Mobile/Sprint proposed merger will go through. This is why: *In the wake of 5G competition from China’s Huawei and ZTE, the market and U.S. government call for it. *Current administration appears sympathetic to deregulation as …
“We’re in a very critical period now and it’s important not to give the Iranians the impression that war is inevitable.” – Geneive Abdo, Arabia Foundation As a young girl, I enjoyed spending summers at the beaches of Manhattan and Hermosa in sunny Southern California. I’d lie if I said it was only to swim …
“As the Japanese put it, ‘engineers make the pie grow larger; lawyers only decide how to carve it up.’” – Derek Bo, President at Harvard, 1983 The recent Supreme Court ruling on Apple Inc. v. Pepper opened the courtroom doors where “iPhone app purchasers can sue the tech giant for antitrust damages over its app …
“There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it’s the risk, the gamble. In any event it’s a thing I need.” – William Faulkner As a child I took many risks. At times, I calculated in my own mind the risk vs rewards. But there were …