For the last few years, I’ve worried about Silicon Valley taking over Hollywood. But things reached a tipping point back in October.
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Apple had just swept the Emmy awards—walking away with 22 tiny statues.
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David Ellison (son of database billionaire Larry Ellison) was poised to take control of Paramount.
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Disney share price was down 50% from its high, and increasingly looked like an acquisition target for some bored web tycoon.
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Warner Bros. was already on the selling block, and would inevitably get taken over by the expanding technocracy.
I was alarmed back then. But that was October. In December, things look even worse.
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