Are the Technology Giants Too Powerful? (Jonathan Taplin and Rohan Silva) | BoF VOICES

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The Business of Fashion

Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts

4.6 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The destructive monopolisation of the internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon is undermining cultural production, argued Jonathan Taplin on the #BoFVOICES 2017 stage in a debate with Rohan Silva, co-founder of Second Home.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and welcome to the B.OF podcast.
0:08.5	Voices is the most stimulating gathering of fashion industry leaders on the planet.
0:13.5	What makes voices different is that we mix our industry with fascinating people from other sectors,
0:18.6	from the worlds of economics, activism, health and wellness,
0:22.5	medicine, film, philanthropy, technology, media, and so many more.
0:27.7	Fashion doesn't live in a bubble, nor should it.
0:30.4	This is one of the sessions from our 2017 gathering.
0:33.5	On the Bof podcast today, we explore the question, are the technology giants too powerful?
0:40.0	Jonathan Taplin is an expert in digital media in the entertainment industry and is the author of Move Fast and Break Things.
0:47.7	And I invited him to speak with my friend Rohan Silva, who I met several years ago when he was working with David Cameron.
0:54.0	Rohan is one of the best interviewers, moderators, speakers that I know.
1:00.2	And the conversation that we had with Rohan and Jonathan at Voices 2017 was definitely
1:06.0	one of the highlights.
1:07.5	I look forward to sharing this with you.
1:09.7	So here we go.
1:10.7	Rohan and Jonathan from Voices
1:12.5	2017 are the technology giants too powerful. Just a quick note, this conversation was recorded
1:19.9	live in front of an audience, so please excuse any audio issues. Jonathan's book, for those
1:27.2	of you haven't read it, is definitely my favorite book of the year.
1:30.3	Whatever you think about what we're going to discuss, it really is an incredible read.
1:36.3	So Jonathan, Imran, slightly teased the audience there about the content of your book.
1:40.3	What's the big argument you're keen to get across? Well, this came out of a personal experience.
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