While oil was the world’s most valuable resource, it has been surpassed by data, as evidenced by the five most valuable companies in the world today — Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Google’s parent company Alphabet.

Jonathan Taplin, director emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab is the author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Google, Facebook and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy.

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